NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M vs NVIDIA GeForce 940MX

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M vs NVIDIA GeForce 940MX, 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

121 points

306 points

152% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

3 FPS

8 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

2 FPS

6 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

2 FPS

5 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS

5 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

2056 points

6582 points

220% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

2610 points

6410 points

145% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

719 MHz

1004 MHz

39% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

758 MHz

1242 MHz

63% significantly 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

12.8 GB/s

16.02 GB/s

25% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

33 W

23 W

43% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

3.03 Gigapixels/s

9.94 Gigapixels/s

227% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

12.13 Gigatexels/s

29.81 Gigatexels/s

145% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

192

384

100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

49% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

487th of 586

375th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 April

2016 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce GT 720M vs GeForce 940MX benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce 940MX GPU is faster than the GeForce GT 720M in gaming.

The GeForce 940MX 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 GeForce 940MX 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 GT 720M at 33 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce 940MX is better than the GeForce GT 720M.