NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M vs NVIDIA GeForce 940MX

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M 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

584 points

90% significantly better overall score

306 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

13 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

8 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

6 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

9 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

5 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

8 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

5 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1155 points

91% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

604 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

102.79 points

75% significantly higher Blender score

58.68 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

11144 points

75% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

6363 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11550 points

75% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

6582 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

10627 points

82% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

5823 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11127 points

73% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

6410 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9592 points

68% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

5702 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1020 MHz

1% slightly higher core clock speed

1004 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1085 MHz

1242 MHz

14% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

80.19 GB/s

400% significantly higher memory bandwidth

16.02 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

23 W

226% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

17.36 Gigapixels/s

74% significantly higher pixel rate

9.94 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

43.4 Gigatexels/s

45% significantly higher texture rate

29.81 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

66% significantly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

66% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

311th of 586

375th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 February

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 860M vs GeForce 940MX specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 860M GPU is faster than the GeForce 940MX in gaming.

The GeForce GTX 860M 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. Despite this, the GeForce 940MX 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 860M at 75 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 860M over the GeForce 940MX.