GeForce GTX 960 and GeForce 940MX - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 960 vs GeForce 940MX
GeForce GTX 960
6254
GeForce 940MX
1561
GeForce GTX 960
GeForce 940MX
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
GM206
N16S-GTR-B/S
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
January 2015
March 2016
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
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
1242 MHz
Core clock speed
1127 MHz
1122 MHz
CUDA cores
1024
-
Floating-point performance
2,413 gflops
762.6 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
23 Watt
Texture fill rate
72 billion/sec
23.83
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
4000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
112 GB/s
40.1 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
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GameWorks
-
+
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
2.0
Optimus
-
+