NVIDIA GeForce 940M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce 940M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce 940M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

325 points

5925 points

1723% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

8 FPS

116 FPS

109 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

6 FPS

80 FPS

73 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

6 FPS

112 FPS

106 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

5 FPS

61 FPS

55 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

48.42 points

3522.98 points

7176% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6264 points

104383 points

1566% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5609 points

98514 points

1656% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1020 MHz

7% slightly higher core clock speed

952 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1098 MHz

1455 MHz

32% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit

128 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

14.4 GB/s

384 GB/s

2566% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

45 W

66% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

17.57 Gigapixels/s

69.84 Gigapixels/s

297% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

35.14 Gigatexels/s

151.3 Gigatexels/s

330% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512

3328

550% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

224% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

368th of 589

85th of 589

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 March

2025 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce 940M vs GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop beats the GeForce 940M in gaming performance.

The GeForce 940M has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. Despite this, the GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the GeForce 940M at 75 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop is faster than the GeForce 940M.