NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce 940M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce 940M, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop

NVIDIA GeForce 940M

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5368 points

1551% significantly better overall score

325 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

134 FPS

126 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

8 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

64 FPS

58 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

6 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

92 FPS

85 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

6 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

50 FPS

45 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

5 FPS

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3318.42 points

6753% significantly higher Blender score

48.42 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89964 points

1336% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

6264 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

90182 points

1507% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

5609 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1545 MHz

51% significantly higher core clock speed

1020 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1890 MHz

72% significantly 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

256 GB/s

1677% significantly higher memory bandwidth

14.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

115 W

75 W

53% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

60.48 Gigapixels/s

244% significantly higher pixel rate

17.57 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

181.4 Gigatexels/s

416% significantly higher texture rate

35.14 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3072

499% significantly more shading units

512

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

200% 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

96th of 589

368th of 589

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 January

2015 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop vs GeForce 940M specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop graphics card is better than the GeForce 940M in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop 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 RTX 4060 Laptop also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce 940M has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop at 115 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop is better than the GeForce 940M.