NVIDIA GeForce 940A
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M
NVIDIA GeForce 940A
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce 940A and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

610
Place in performance rating
193
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Value for money (0-100)
29.35
Maxwell
Architecture
Maxwell
GM108
Code name
GM204
Desktop
Type
Laptop
13 March 2015 (6 years ago)
Release date
7 October 2014 (7 years ago)
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Price now
$583
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Value for money
9.31
GM108
GPU code name
GM204
Desktop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce 940A and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

384
Pipelines
1536
1029 MHz
Core clock speed
1038 MHz
1124 MHz
Boost Clock
1127 MHz
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Transistor count
5,200 million
28 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
33 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
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17.98
Texture fill rate
51.84
863.2 gflops
Floating-point performance
3,462 gflops
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CUDA cores
1536
384
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
1124 MHz
Boost clock speed
1127 MHz
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Number of transistors
5,200 million
33 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
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Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce 940A and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M.

PCIe 3.0 x8
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
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Supplementary power connectors
None
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Laptop size
large
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SLI options
+
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Bus support
PCI Express 3.0

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics NVIDIA GeForce 940A and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M can be seen in this section.

DDR3
Memory type
GDDR5
1 GB
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
64 Bit
Memory bus width
256 Bit
2002 MHz
Memory clock speed
2500 MHz
16.02 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
160 GB/s
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Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce 940A and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M, the size and number of monitors.

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Display Connectors
No outputs
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G-SYNC support
+
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HDMI
+
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VGA аnalog display support
+
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DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
+

Technologies

The difference between NVIDIA GeForce 940A and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M is the additional functionality.

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GPU Boost
2.0
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CUDA
+
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GeForce Experience
+
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Optimus
+
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Ansel
+
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GameStream
+
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GeForce ShadowPlay
+
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GameWorks
+
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BatteryBoost
+
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H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
+
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DSR
+

API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce 940A and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.5
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Vulkan
1.1.126
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Shader Model
6.4
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OpenCL
1.1

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce 940A and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the NVIDIA GeForce 940A or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 940A
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 940A
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 940A
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 940A
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 940A
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce 940A

There is no accountable advantage

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

29.7% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (1536 vs 384)

More maximum RAM amount (8 GB vs 1 GB)

More memory bandwidth (160 GB/s vs 16.02 GB/s)

G-SYNC support

So, NVIDIA GeForce 940A or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M .

NVIDIA GeForce 940A versus NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M performance benchmarks comparison

Overall benchmark performance

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score NVIDIA GeForce 940A
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