GeForce GTX 590 and GeForce 940MX - video card comparison

Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 590 vs GeForce 940MX

GeForce GTX 590

3441

GeForce 940MX

1561

GeForce GTX 590

GeForce 940MX

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

Maxwell (2014−2018)

GPU code name

GF110

N16S-GTR-B/S

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

March 2011

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

Two 8-pin

None

SLI options

Boost clock speed

1242 MHz

Core clock speed

607 MHz

1122 MHz

CUDA cores

1024

Floating-point performance

2x 1,244.2 gflops

762.6 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

3,000 million

1,870 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1024

384

Power consumption (TDP)

365 Watt

23 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

97 °C

Texture fill rate

77.7 billion/sec

23.83

Memory type

GDDR5

DDR3, GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

3072 MB (1536 MB per GPU)

4 GB

Memory bus width

768-bit (384-bit per GPU)

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

1707 MHz

4000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

327.7 GB/s

40.1 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

Three Dual Link DVI-IMini DisplayPort

No outputs

Multi monitor support

HDMI

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