P106-090 vs GeForce 940A

Place in the ranking	847	636
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	6.12	5.86
Architecture	Maxwell (2014−2017)	Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name	GM108	GP106
Market segment	Laptop	Workstation
Release date	13 March 2015 (10 years ago)	31 July 2017 (8 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	384	768
Core clock speed	1029 MHz	1354 MHz
Boost clock speed	1124 MHz	1531 MHz
Number of transistors	no data	4,400 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	16 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	33 Watt	75 Watt
Texture fill rate	17.98	73.49
Floating-point processing power	0.8632 TFLOPS	2.352 TFLOPS
ROPs	8	48
TMUs	16	48
L1 Cache	192 KB	288 KB
L2 Cache	1024 KB	1536 KB

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 1.0 x1
Length	no data	250 mm
Width	no data	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	1x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	DDR3	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	3 GB
Memory bus width	64 Bit	192 Bit
Memory clock speed	1001 MHz	2002 MHz
Memory bandwidth	16.02 GB/s	192.2 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors

No outputs

API and SDK support

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (11_0)	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	5.1	6.8
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	3.0
Vulkan	1.1.126	1.3
CUDA	5.0	6.1

Synthetic benchmarks

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

GeForce 940A 2.50

P106-090 5.44
+118%

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

GeForce 940A 1106
Samples: 7

P106-090 2404
+117%

Samples: 12

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	2.50	5.44
Recency	13 March 2015	31 July 2017
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	3 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	16 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	33 Watt	75 Watt

GeForce 940A has 127.3% lower power consumption.

P106-090, on the other hand, has a 117.6% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 2 years, a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 75% more advanced lithography process.

The P106-090 is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce 940A in performance tests.

Be aware that GeForce 940A is a notebook graphics card while P106-090 is a workstation one.