NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 840M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 840M, 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

2457 points

680% significantly better overall score

315 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

39 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

8 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

40 FPS

34 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

6 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

5 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

28 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

5 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

377.89 points

735% significantly higher Blender score

45.23 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

34034 points

504% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

5629 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36416 points

513% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

5938 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

37241 points

615% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

5207 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36494 points

499% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

6089 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

35697 points

578% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

5261 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

46% significantly higher core clock speed

1029 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1709 MHz

52% significantly higher boost clock speed

1124 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

200% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.2 GB/s

1099% significantly higher memory bandwidth

16.02 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

33 W

263% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

82.03 Gigapixels/s

812% significantly higher pixel rate

8.99 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

136.7 Gigatexels/s

660% significantly higher texture rate

17.98 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

233% significantly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

400% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

499% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

180th of 586

371st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 July

2014 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce GTX 1060 6GB vs GeForce 840M comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB graphics card is better than the GeForce 840M in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 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 GTX 1060 6GB also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce 840M has a significantly lower TDP at 33 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB at 120 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB is faster than the GeForce 840M.