NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 940MX

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6 GB 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

2457 points

702% significantly better overall score

306 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

40 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

543% significantly higher Blender score

58.68 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

34034 points

434% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

6363 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36416 points

453% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

6582 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

37241 points

539% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

5823 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36494 points

469% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

6410 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

35697 points

526% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

5702 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

49% significantly higher core clock speed

1004 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1709 MHz

37% slightly higher boost clock speed

1242 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

23 W

421% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

82.03 Gigapixels/s

725% significantly higher pixel rate

9.94 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

136.7 Gigatexels/s

358% significantly higher texture rate

29.81 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

233% 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

375th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 July

2016 June

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 940MX comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GPU is faster than the GeForce 940MX in gaming.

The GeForce GTX 1060 6GB has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 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, the GeForce 940MX has a significantly lower TDP at 23 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.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB over the GeForce 940MX.