GeForce GTX 470M and GeForce 940M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 470M vs GeForce 940M
GeForce GTX 470M
2012
GeForce 940M
1156
GeForce GTX 470M
GeForce 940M
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
N11E-GT
N16S-GT-S/B
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
November 2010
March 2015
Bus support
-
PCI Express 3.0
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
1176 MHz
Core clock speed
535 MHz
1072 MHz
Floating-point performance
616.3 gflops
903.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,950 million
1,870 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
288
384
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
19.7 billion/sec
28.22
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
4 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
60.0 GB/s
14.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 API
12 (11_0)
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.5
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.1.126
GameWorks
-
+
GPU Boost
-
2.0
Optimus
-
+