NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M vs NVIDIA GeForce 940M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 940M, 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

1001 points

207% significantly better overall score

325 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

24 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

8 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

17 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

6 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

6 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

15 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

5 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1804 points

256% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

506 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

147.61 points

204% significantly higher Blender score

48.42 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

13861 points

135% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

5882 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16496 points

166% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

6193 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16483 points

201% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

5469 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

15820 points

152% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

6264 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16599 points

195% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

5609 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

944 MHz

1020 MHz

8% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1150 MHz

4% slightly higher boost clock speed

1098 MHz

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

456% significantly higher memory bandwidth

14.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

60 W

25% slightly lower TDP

75 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

36.8 Gigapixels/s

109% significantly higher pixel rate

17.57 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

73.6 Gigatexels/s

109% significantly higher texture rate

35.14 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

100% significantly more shading units

512

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

100% 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

264th of 587

370th of 587

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 January

2015 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

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 965M vs GeForce 940M comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 965M GPU is faster than the GeForce 940M in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce 940M has a slightly 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. Despite this, the GeForce GTX 965M has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 965M has a slightly lower TDP at 60 W when compared to the GeForce 940M at 75 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 965M over the GeForce 940M.