NVIDIA GeForce 940M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

What is the difference between NVIDIA GeForce 940M and NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX. Find out which graphics card has better performance.

Graphics Processor (GPU)

GM108GPU NameG92
MaxwellArchitectureTesla
TSMCFoundryTSMC
28 nmProcess Size65 nm
unknownTransistors754 million
unknownDie Size324 mm²

Graphics Card

Mar 13th, 2015Release DateMay 27th, 2009
GeForce 900MFamilyGeForce 9
(9600)
ActiveProductionEnd-of-life
GeForce 800MPredecessorGeForce 8
PCIe 3.0 x8Bus InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16

Memory

2 GBMemory Size512 MB
DDR3Memory TypeGDDR3
64 bitMemory Bus256 bit
14.40 GB/sBandwidth44.80 GB/s

Performance

9.408 GPixel/sPixel fillrate9.280 GPixel/s
28.22 GTexel/sTexture fillrate27.84 GTexel/s
903.2 GFLOPSFP32 (float) performance278.4 GFLOPS

Clock Speeds

900 MHz
1800 Mbps effective
Memory Clock700 MHz
1400 Mbps effective

Render Config

384Shading Units96
24TMUs48
8ROPs16
1024 KBL2 Cache64 KB

Board Design

MXM ModuleSlot WidthDual-slot
33 WThermal design power (TDP)140 W
No outputsDisplay Connectors2x DVI
1x S-Video

API support

12 (11_0)DirectX11.1 (10_0)
4.6OpenGL3.3
3.0OpenCL1.1
1.1VulkanN/A
5.1Shader Model4.0
5.0CUDA1.1