GeForce GTX 960 and GeForce 940M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 960 vs GeForce 940M
GeForce GTX 960
6254
GeForce 940M
1156
GeForce GTX 960
GeForce 940M
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
GM206
N16S-GT-S/B
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
January 2015
March 2015
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
PCI Express 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Recommended system power (PSU)
400 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pins
-
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
1176 MHz
Core clock speed
1127 MHz
1072 MHz
CUDA cores
1024
-
Floating-point performance
2,413 gflops
903.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,940 million
1,870 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
384
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
72 billion/sec
28.22
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
112 GB/s
14.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.5
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
+
1.1.126
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GameWorks
-
+
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
2.0
Optimus
-
+