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GeForce 940M

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Release date ≈ Q4 2015.

Average Bench: 10.8% (284th of 714)

Based on 389 user benchmarks.  Device: 10DE 139C Model: NVIDIA GeForce 940M
Poor: 7%Average: 10.8% Great: 12%

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Terrible average bench

The Nvidia GeForce 940M averaged 89.2% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This isn't a great result which indicates that there are much faster alternatives on the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat) 14.8fps
Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy) 15.6fps

Excellent consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Nvidia GeForce 940M is just 4.86%. This is an extremely narrow range which indicates that the Nvidia GeForce 940M performs superbly consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 13.2fps
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 12.8fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 389 samples)
Rank 28410.8%
Min Avg Max
8.63 Lighting 14.8 16.6
11.6 Reflection 13.2 14.1
10.5 Parallax 12.8 14.4
12.1% 13.6 fps
Min Avg Max
5.2 MRender 5.68 6.24
12.5 Gravity 15.6 17.6
0.25 Splatting 9.14 11.4
8.3% 10.1 fps
User Benchmarks Bench3D DX93D DX103D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
Asus(1043 1D1D) 2GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 31.0.15.5186
11.6% Very poor
Lighting 15.2
Reflection 12.5
Parallax 13.3
12% 13.7 fps
MRender 5.2
Gravity 16.9
Splatting 13.6
10% 11.9 fps
Asus(1043 1B2D) 2GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 25.21.14.1881
11.4% Very poor
Lighting 15.2
Reflection 13.4
Parallax 13.9
12% 14.2 fps
MRender 5.7
Gravity 17.1
Splatting 11.3
9% 11.4 fps
Asus(1043 1D1D) 2GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 31.0.15.3179
11.1% Very poor
Lighting 14.8
Reflection 11.9
Parallax 12.7
12% 13.1 fps
MRender 5.2
Gravity 16.8
Splatting 11.2
9% 11.1 fps
Asus(1043 24AA) 2GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 23.21.13.8873
8.74% Terrible
Lighting 10.7
Reflection 12.9
Parallax 11.6
9% 11.7 fps
MRender 5
Gravity 16.1
Splatting 10.6
9% 10.6 fps
Asus(1043 1D1D) 2GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 31.0.15.4617
6.53% Terrible
Lighting 8.7
Reflection 15.1
Parallax 10.2
7% 11.3 fps
MRender 5.1
Gravity 17
Splatting 0.2
5% 7.43 fps
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Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price
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Asus(1043 1D1D) 35% 11% ± 1%
Asus(1043 1B2D) 27% 11% ± 1%
Asus(1043 1ACD) 25% 10% ± 2%
Asus(1043 24AA) 12% 11% ± 1%
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Gaming 11%
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Desktop
Desktop 54%
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Workstation
Workstation 9%
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System: Asus K501UB

CPU
Core i7-6500UIntelBench 46%, 102,213 samples58x
Core i5-6200UIntelBench 41%, 135,462 samples19x
GPU
GeForce 940MNvidiaBench 11%, 389 samples29x
SSD
MX500 500GBCrucial  $48Bench 106%, 237,241 samples5x
MZNLF128HCHP-00004 128GBSamsungBench 43%, 7,448 samples4x
WDS240G2G0B-00EPW0 240GBWDCBench 45%, 85,321 samples4x
RAM
8KTF51264HDZ-1G9E1 Samsung M471B5173EB0-YK0 8GBMicronBench 53%, 423 samples20x
HMT451S6CFR6A-PB HMT451S6BFR8A-PB 8GBHynixBench 53%, 1,691 samples19x
HMT451S6CFR6A-PB Samsung M471B5173EB0-YK0 8GBHynixBench 53%, 3,550 samples8x
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