NVIDIA GeForce 940MX vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce 940MX vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce 940MX

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

306 points

5350 points

1648% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

8 FPS

134 FPS

126 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

6 FPS

64 FPS

58 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

5 FPS

92 FPS

86 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

5 FPS

50 FPS

45 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

58.68 points

3318.42 points

5554% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6410 points

89964 points

1303% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5702 points

90182 points

1481% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1004 MHz

1545 MHz

53% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1242 MHz

1890 MHz

52% significantly 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

16.02 GB/s

256 GB/s

1498% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

23 W

400% significantly lower TDP

115 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

9.94 Gigapixels/s

60.48 Gigapixels/s

508% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

29.81 Gigatexels/s

181.4 Gigatexels/s

508% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

3072

700% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

300% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

376th of 586

96th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce 940MX vs GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop beats the GeForce 940MX in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop has a significantly 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. In addition, the GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the GeForce 940MX has a significantly lower TDP at 23 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop at 115 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop is better than the GeForce 940MX.