NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs NVIDIA GeForce 940MX

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 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

2077 points

578% significantly better overall score

306 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS

36 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

8 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

28 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

6 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

5 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

5 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3636 points

501% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

604 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

370.89 points

532% significantly higher Blender score

58.68 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

31129 points

389% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

6363 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32388 points

392% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

6582 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

31476 points

440% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

5823 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points

404% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

6410 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points

442% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

5702 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz

70% significantly higher core clock speed

1004 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

23 W

421% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

205th of 586

375th 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

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce 940MX benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1060 beats the GeForce 940MX in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1060 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 940MX has a significantly lower TDP at 23 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 at 120 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1060 is faster than the GeForce 940MX.