GeForce GTX 480 and GeForce 940MX - video card comparison

Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 480 vs GeForce 940MX

GeForce GTX 480

4229

GeForce 940MX

1561

GeForce GTX 480

GeForce 940MX

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

Maxwell (2014−2018)

GPU code name

GF100

N16S-GTR-B/S

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

December 2010

March 2016

Bus support

16x PCI-E 2.0

PCI Express 3.0

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

6-pin & 8-pin

None

SLI options

Boost clock speed

1242 MHz

Core clock speed

700 MHz

1122 MHz

CUDA cores

480

Floating-point performance

1,345.0 gflops

762.6 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

3,100 million

1,870 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

480

384

Power consumption (TDP)

295 Watt

23 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

Texture fill rate

42 billion/sec

23.83

Memory type

GDDR5

DDR3, GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

1536 MB

4 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

1848 MHz (3696 data rate)

4000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

177.4 GB/s

40.1 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI

No outputs

Multi monitor support

HDMI

HDCP

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

Audio input for HDMI

Internal

DirectX

12 (11_0)

CUDA

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

OpenGL

4.2

4.5

Shader Model

5.1

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

GameWorks

GPU Boost

2.0

Optimus