NVIDIA GeForce 920M vs NVIDIA GeForce 940M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce 920M vs NVIDIA GeForce 940M, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

250 points
325 points
30% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

6 FPS
8 FPS
2 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS
6 FPS
3 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

4 FPS
6 FPS
2 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

3 FPS
5 FPS
2 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

47.35 points
48.42 points
2% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

2766 points
5882 points
112% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3462 points
6193 points
78% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3215 points
5469 points
70% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3725 points
6264 points
68% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3845 points
5609 points
45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit
Identical
64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

14.4 GB/s
Identical
14.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

33 W
127% significantly lower TDP
75 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

7.63 Gigapixels/s
17.57 Gigapixels/s
130% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

30.53 Gigatexels/s
35.14 Gigatexels/s
15% slightly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384
512
33% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

32
Identical
32

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

8
16
100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

401st of 586
367th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 March
2015 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce 920M vs GeForce 940M benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce 940M GPU is faster than the GeForce 920M in gaming.

In addition, the GeForce 920M has a significantly lower TDP at 33 W when compared to the GeForce 940M at 75 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce 940M over the GeForce 920M.

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