NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce 940MX

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 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

2262 points

639% 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

39 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

8 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

29 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

28 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

5 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3647 points

503% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

604 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points

394% significantly higher Blender score

58.68 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

25908 points

307% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

6363 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points

342% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

6582 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107 points

485% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

5823 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

356% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

6410 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

467% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

5702 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

4% slightly higher core clock speed

1004 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

1242 MHz

5% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

300% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s

1300% significantly higher memory bandwidth

16.02 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

23 W

530% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s

563% significantly higher pixel rate

9.94 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

310% significantly higher texture rate

29.81 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664

333% significantly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

333% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

599% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586

376th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

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

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 970 vs GeForce 940MX benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 970 graphics card is better than the GeForce 940MX in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 970 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. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce 940MX has a significantly lower TDP at 23 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 970 at 145 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 970 is better than the GeForce 940MX.