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GTX 940M

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Release date ≈ Q2 2015.

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Average Bench: 10.3% (211th of 596)

Based on 5,811 user benchmarks.  Device: 10DE 1347 Model: NVIDIA GeForce 940M
Poor: 7%Average: 10.3% Great: 12%

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Terrible average bench

The Nvidia GTX 940M averaged 89.6% 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) 35.8fps
Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy) 37.6fps

Excellent consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Nvidia GTX 940M is just 4.76%. This is an extremely narrow range which indicates that the Nvidia GTX 940M performs superbly consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 24.9fps
Avg. Render target array GShader (Sphere) 12.1fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 5,811 samples)
Rank 21110.3%
Min Avg Max
10.9 Lighting 35.8 42.2
18.8 Reflection 24.9 26.8
21.2 Parallax 31.9 36.7
10.6% 30.9 fps
Min Avg Max
11.1 MRender 12.1 13.3
23.7 Gravity 37.6 41.5
0.2 Splatting 17.4 22
10.1% 22.4 fps
User Benchmarks Bench 3D DX9 3D DX10 3D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
Acer(1025 102F) ≥ 4GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 25.21.14.1634
11.2% Very poor
Lighting 41.1
Reflection 26
Parallax 33.3
12% 33.5 fps
MRender 12.2
Gravity 39.3
Splatting 20.2
11% 23.9 fps
Asus(1043 245A) 2GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 25.21.14.1634
11.2% Very poor
Lighting 41.3
Reflection 23.7
Parallax 33.2
12% 32.7 fps
MRender 11.6
Gravity 39.6
Splatting 20.1
11% 23.8 fps
Asus(1043 1B1D) 2GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 25.21.14.1634
11% Very poor
Lighting 40.7
Reflection 25.9
Parallax 32.8
12% 33.1 fps
MRender 11.6
Gravity 38.9
Splatting 19.9
10% 23.5 fps
Asus(1043 1B6D) 2GB
Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 21.21.13.6909
10.7% Very poor
Lighting 41.1
Reflection 26.6
Parallax 34.5
12% 34.1 fps
MRender 13.1
Gravity 32.7
Splatting 20.4
10% 22.1 fps
HP(103C 80E6) 2GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 25.21.14.1634
10% Very poor
Lighting 32.6
Reflection 23.9
Parallax 26.2
9% 27.6 fps
MRender 11.7
Gravity 38.9
Splatting 19.9
10% 23.5 fps
Asus(1043 1A6D) 2GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 25.21.14.1634
9.79% Terrible
Lighting 29.5
Reflection 25.8
Parallax 31.9
9% 29.1 fps
MRender 11.8
Gravity 36.1
Splatting 20.1
10% 22.7 fps
Legend(17AA 504D) 2GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 25.21.14.1634
9.56% Terrible
Lighting 39.4
Reflection 22.2
Parallax 28.9
11% 30.2 fps
MRender 11.7
Gravity 39.3
Splatting 0.2
8% 17.1 fps
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The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 11,536,151 GPUs tested.

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Based on statistics from 5,811 user benchmarks.

Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price
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HP(103C 80A4) 10% 10% ± 1%
Asus(1043 1A6D) 9% 10% ± 2%
HP(103C 8096) 7% 10% ± 3%
Asus(1043 246A) 7% 10% ± 1%
Acer(1025 098C) 5% 11% ± 1%
Acer(1025 100D) 5% 10% ± 1%
Legend(17AA 3829) 4% 11% ± 1%
Asus(1043 1B1D) 3% 11% ± 1%
Legend(17AA 3821) 2% 11% ± 1%
Clevo(1558 6504) 2% 11% ± 2%
HP(103C 80E6) 2% 11% ± 1%
Device(1B0A 2281) 2% 10% ± 2%
Acer(1025 1031) 2% 11% ± 1%
Acer(1025 0993) 2% 12% ± 2%
MSI(1462 114C) 2% 11% ± 1%
HP(103C 80A5) 2% 10% ± 2%
Acer(1025 102F) 2% 9% ± 3%
HP(103C 80DE) 1% 10% ± 2%
HP(103C 80E5) 1% 11% ± 1%
Asus(1043 12DF) 1% 10% ± 1%
Acer(1025 0989) 1% 10% ± 2%
Asus(1043 1D2D) 1% 11% ± 0%
MSI(1462 1113) 1% 11% ± 0%
MSI(1462 1116) 1% 11% ± 1%
Asus(1043 1B6D) 1% 11% ± 1%
Acer(1025 0974) 1% 10% ± 1%
Legend(17AA 3917) 1% 10% ± 2%
Asus(1043 1A9D) 1% 11% ± 0%
HP(103C 80A3) 1% 9% ± 2%
Sanyo(144D C757) 1% 11% ± 1%
Acer(1025 0985) 1% 11% ± 1%
Asus(1043 23BA) 1% 10% ± 2%
Asus(1043 1CDD) 1% 9% ± 2%
MSI(1462 114D) 1% 11% ± 0%
Asus(1043 241A) 1% 10% ± 2%
HP(103C 8095) 1% 10% ± 2%
Legend(17AA 5042) 1% 11% ± 0%
HP(103C 80DD) 1% 11% ± 1%
Acer(1025 0963) 1% 11% ± 0%
Legend(17AA 380B) 1% 11% ± 1%
Dell(1028 06EF) 1% 10% ± 3%
Device(1B0A 2109) 1% 8% ± 4%
HP(103C 8097) 0% 7% ± 3%
Acer(1025 091D) 0% 11% ± 0%
Asus(1043 195D) 0% 11% ± 0%
MSI(1462 1112) 0% 12% ± 0%
Asus(1043 1A7D) 0% 11% ± 0%
Acer(1025 1040) 0% 11% ± 0%
Legend(17AA 3839) 0% 11% ± 0%
Device(1854 0233) 0% 10% ± 2%
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Gaming 16%
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Desktop 44%
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Workstation 24%
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System: HP Pavilion Notebook

CPU
Core i5-6200UIntelBench 42%, 47,867 samples2,067x
Core i7-6500UIntelBench 46%, 42,095 samples1,717x
Core i5-7200UIntelBench 48%, 56,039 samples1,621x
GPU
GTX 940MNvidiaBench 10%, 5,811 samples1x
SSD
MZNTY128HDHP-000H1 128GBSamsungBench 84%, 2,086 samples371x
PM961 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBSamsung  $75Bench 177%, 24,139 samples337x
SD8SNAT-256G-1006 256GBSandiskBench 60%, 1,322 samples257x
RAM
HMT41GS6BFR8A-PB 1x8GBHynixBench 28%, 27,459 samples668x
M471B1G73EB0-YK0 1x8GBSamsungBench 28%, 12,587 samples577x
8ATF1G64HZ-2G3B1 1x8GBMicronBench 37%, 9,067 samples545x
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