NVIDIA started GeForce 940MX sales 10 March 2016. This is a Maxwell architecture notebook card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 4 GB of DDR3, GDDR5 memory clocked at 4 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 40.1 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via PCIe 3.0 x8 interface. Power consumption is at 23 Watt.

General info

Some basic facts about GeForce 940MX: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking	657
Place by popularity	76
Value for money	0.22
Architecture	Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name	N16S-GTR-B/S
Market segment	Laptop
Release date	10 March 2016 (8 years ago)
Current price	$950	of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Technical specs

GeForce 940MX's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce 940MX's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	384	of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed	1122 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed	1242 MHz	of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors	1,870 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	of 4 (Radeon 780M)
Power consumption (TDP)	23 Watt	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	23.83	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)
Floating-point performance	762.6 gflops	of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Size and compatibility

Information on GeForce 940MX's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size	medium sized
Bus support	PCI Express 3.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors	None

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 940MX: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	DDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	64 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	40.1 GB/s	of 3276 (Aldebaran)
Shared memory	-

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 940MX. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors

No outputs

Technologies

Technological solutions and APIs supported by GeForce 940MX. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

GPU Boost	2.0
Optimus	+
GameWorks	+

API support

APIs supported by GeForce 940MX, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.1
OpenGL	4.5	of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCL	1.2
Vulkan	1.1
CUDA	+

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce 940MX. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

GeForce 940MX 3.91

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. 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.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

GeForce 940MX 1513

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

GeForce 940MX 8549

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

GeForce 940MX 2556

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

GeForce 940MX 1996

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

GeForce 940MX 11513

GeekBench 5 OpenCL

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.

Benchmark coverage: 9%

GeForce 940MX 6188

3DMark Ice Storm GPU

Ice Storm Graphics is an obsolete benchmark, part of 3DMark suite. Ice Storm was used to measure entry level laptops and Windows-based tablets performance. It utilizes DirectX 11 feature level 9 to display a battle between two space fleets near a frozen planet in 1280x720 resolution. Discontinued in January 2020, it is now superseded by 3DMark Night Raid.

Benchmark coverage: 8%

GeForce 940MX 147706

GeekBench 5 Vulkan

Benchmark coverage: 5%

GeForce 940MX 5097

GeekBench 5 CUDA

Benchmark coverage: 4%

GeForce 940MX 6290

Unigine Heaven 3.0

This is an old DirectX 11 benchmark using Unigine, a 3D game engine by eponymous Russian company. It displays a fantasy medieval town sprawling over several flying islands. Version 3.0 was released in 2012, and in 2013 it was superseded by Heaven 4.0, which introduced several slight improvements, including a newer version of Unigine.

Benchmark coverage: 4%

GeForce 940MX 25

Octane Render OctaneBench

This is a special benchmark measuring graphics card performance in OctaneRender, which is a realistic GPU rendering engine by OTOY Inc., available either as a standalone program, or as a plugin for 3DS Max, Cinema 4D and many other apps. It renders four different static scenes, then compares render times with a reference GPU which is currently GeForce GTX 980. This benchmark has nothing to do with gaming and is aimed at professional 3D graphics artists.

Benchmark coverage: 4%

GeForce 940MX 17

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce 940MX is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Average FPS across all PC games

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

Full HD	18
4K	10

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

7−8

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	11
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	2−3
Battlefield 5	16
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	14−16
Cyberpunk 2077	7−8
Far Cry 5	12
Far Cry New Dawn	11
Forza Horizon 4	18
Hitman 3	8−9
Horizon Zero Dawn	7−8
Red Dead Redemption 2	8−9
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	10
Watch Dogs: Legion	4−5

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	8
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	2−3
Battlefield 5	13
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	14−16
Cyberpunk 2077	7−8
Far Cry 5	12
Far Cry New Dawn	7−8
Forza Horizon 4	14
Hitman 3	8−9
Horizon Zero Dawn	7−8
Metro Exodus	5−6
Red Dead Redemption 2	8−9
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	7
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	12
Watch Dogs: Legion	4−5

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	5
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	2−3
Battlefield 5	11
Cyberpunk 2077	7−8
Far Cry 5	11
Far Cry New Dawn	7−8
Forza Horizon 4	12
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	7
Watch Dogs: Legion	4−5

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	6−7
Hitman 3	7−8
Horizon Zero Dawn	10−11
Metro Exodus	2−3
Red Dead Redemption 2	2−3
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	7−8

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	2−3
Cyberpunk 2077	2−3
Far Cry 5	6−7
Far Cry New Dawn	2−3
Forza Horizon 4	4−5
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	4−5

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	3−4
Hitman 3	4−5
Horizon Zero Dawn	7−8
Red Dead Redemption 2	2−3
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	1−2

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	2−3
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	1−2
Cyberpunk 2077	0−1
Far Cry 5	4−5
Far Cry New Dawn	6−7
Forza Horizon 4	1−2

Relative performance

Overall GeForce 940MX performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook video cards.

Iris Plus Graphics 645 101.53

GeForce 845M 100.77

Iris Pro Graphics 6200 100

GeForce 940MX 100

Radeon HD 7870M 99.49

Iris Plus Graphics 640 98.47

Radeon R9 M365X 97.95

Conclusion

GeForce 940MX is an entry notebook discrete video card, suitable for non-demanding games and even for some demanding ones, although with lower settings. You can play The Witcher 3 or PUBG at lowest settings and 720p resolution, while older Dota 2 or Diablo III run at high settings in Full HD.

There are two variants, one with DDR3 memory and one with GDDR5, the later is faster by 10-30%.

Video of popular games running on 940MX (with DDR3 memory):

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce 940MX is Radeon HD 7870M, which is slower by 1% and lower by 3 positions in our ranking.