The GeForce 940M is a direct successor to last year’s 840M and it’s placed in the mid-range class. It is commonly used as a multimedia GPU and light gaming. It’s very similar to its predecessor GeForce 840M, but it’s slightly higher clocked. GeForce 940M is Maxwell-based and uses GM108 chip.
NVIDIA GeForce 940M is built with a 28nm manufacturing process and has 384 shader units, 24 TMUs and 8 ROPs (64-bit interface). It can be found in modifications with 2GB or 4GB DDR3 memory.
940M’s TDP is 33 watts and is mostly used in mainstream laptops. It supports GPU Boost 2.0, Optimus, PhysX, CUDA and GeForce Experience.
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Laptops with NVIDIA GeForce 940M (2GB DDR3)
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NVIDIA GeForce 940M (2GB DDR3) - benchmark tests
NVIDIA GeForce 940M (2GB DDR3) vs competitors:
| # | GPU | 3DM Fire Strike (G) |
Performance Difference |
In laptops starting at... | Price Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 177. | AMD Radeon R7 M445 (2GB GDDR5) | 1625 | 0% | $959.99 | - |
| 178. | NVIDIA Quadro K620M (2GB DDR3) | 1621 | 0% | N/A | - |
| 179. | NVIDIA GeForce 940M (2GB DDR3) | 1618 |  1% |
$699.00 | - |
| 180. | NVIDIA Quadro M500M (2GB DDR3) | 1602 |  1% |
N/A | - |
| 181. | NVIDIA GeForce GT 745M (2GB DDR3) | 1583 | 0% | N/A | - |
| 182. | AMD FirePro W4190M (2GB GDDR5) | 1576 | - | $999.95 | - |
NVIDIA GeForce 940M (2GB DDR3) - gaming tests
We’ve tested NVIDIA GeForce 940M (2GB DDR3) on…
| # | Laptop series | 3DMark Fire Strike (G) | Unigine Heaven 3.0 | Unigine Heaven 4.0 | Unigine Superposition | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Acer TravelMate P658 | 1662.00 | 476.00 | 349.00 | 0.00 | $1919.10 |
| 2. | NVIDIA Prototype | 1727.00 | 470.00 | 350.00 | 0.00 | N/A |
| 3. | Lenovo Yoga 3 (14") | 1563.00 | 435.00 | 337.00 | 0.00 | N/A |
| 4. | HP Star Wars Special Edition 15 | 1608.00 | 456.00 | 354.00 | 0.00 | N/A |
| 5. | ASUS ZenBook UX303UB | 1532.00 | 435.00 | 324.00 | 0.00 | N/A |