GMA vs GeForce 940M

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	805	1550
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	6.01	no data
Architecture	Maxwell (2014−2017)	PowerVR SGX545 (2008−2010)
GPU code name	GM108	Cloverview
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	13 March 2015 (10 years ago)	4 May 2010 (14 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	no data
Core clock speed	1072 MHz	533 MHz
Boost clock speed	1176 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	1,870 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	32 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	75 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	28.22	1.066
Floating-point processing power	0.9032 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	8	1
TMUs	24	2

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).

Laptop size	medium sized	no data
Bus support	PCI Express 3.0	no data
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 1.0 x16

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	System Shared
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	System Shared
Memory bus width	64 Bit	System Shared
Memory clock speed	900 MHz	System Shared
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB/s	no data
Shared memory	-	+

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors

No outputs

No outputs

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

GPU Boost	2.0	no data
Optimus	+	-
GameWorks	+	-

API and SDK compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_0)	9.0c
Shader Model	5.1	3.0
OpenGL	4.5	ES 2.0
OpenCL	1.2	N/A
Vulkan	1.1.126	N/A
CUDA	+	-

Synthetic benchmark performance

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

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Gaming performance

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

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD	19	no data
1440p	96	no data
4K	20	no data

FPS performance in popular games

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	13 March 2015	4 May 2010
Chip lithography	28 nm	32 nm

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