NVIDIA GeForce 940MX vs NVIDIA T550 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce 940MX vs NVIDIA T550 Laptop, 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

306 points

2105 points

587% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

8 FPS

49 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

6 FPS

27 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

5 FPS

33 FPS

28 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

5 FPS

19 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

58.68 points

142.83 points

143% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6410 points

35193 points

449% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5702 points

31071 points

444% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1004 MHz

1065 MHz

6% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1242 MHz

1665 MHz

34% slightly higher boost clock speed

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

16.02 GB/s

96 GB/s

499% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

23 W

Identical

23 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

9.94 Gigapixels/s

53.28 Gigapixels/s

436% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

29.81 Gigatexels/s

106.6 Gigatexels/s

257% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

1024

166% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

166% 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

375th of 586

202nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

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 T550 Laptop specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the T550 Laptop beats the GeForce 940MX in gaming performance.

The T550 Laptop 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. In addition, the T550 Laptop also has a slightly 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, both the GeForce 940MX and the T550 Laptop have an identical TDP. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the T550 Laptop over the GeForce 940MX.