
GeForce GTX 1050 and GeForce 940M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 1050 vs GeForce 940M
GeForce GTX 1050
5198
GeForce 940M
1156
GeForce GTX 1050
GeForce 940M
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
N17P-G1
N16S-GT-S/B
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
October 2016
March 2015
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
PCI Express 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Recommended system power (PSU)
300 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
SLI
-
-
SLI options
-
-
Boost clock speed
1392 MHz
1176 MHz
Core clock speed
1290 MHz
1072 MHz
CUDA cores
640
-
Floating-point performance
1,862 gflops
903.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
3,300 million
1,870 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
384
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
75 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
97 °C
-
Texture fill rate
58.20
28.22
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
7008 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
112 GB/s
14.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
DP 1.4, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI
No outputs
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
2.2
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.5
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.1.126
Ansel
+
-
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
-
+
GPU Boost
3.0
2.0
Optimus
-
+
VR Ready
+
-