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GTX 940M

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Release date ≈ Q2 2015.

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Average Bench: 10.3% (236th of 621)

Based on 7,739 user benchmarks.  Device: 10DE 1347 Model: NVIDIA GeForce 940M
Poor: 7%Average: 10.3% Great: 11%

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Terrible average bench

The Nvidia GTX 940M averaged 89.7% 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) 35.5fps
Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy) 37.9fps

Excellent consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Nvidia GTX 940M is just 4.21%. 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 7,739 samples)
Rank 23610.3%
Min Avg Max
11 Lighting 35.5 41.9
19.8 Reflection 24.9 26.6
20.8 Parallax 31.7 35.8
10.5% 30.7 fps
Min Avg Max
11.3 MRender 12.1 13.2
22.5 Gravity 37.9 41.1
0.2 Splatting 17.1 20.6
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 1052) 2GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 26.21.14.3160
11.5% Very poor
Lighting 41.3
Reflection 26.7
Parallax 34.4
12% 34.1 fps
MRender 12
Gravity 41.4
Splatting 20.5
11% 24.6 fps
Device(1B0A 2109) 2GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 26.21.14.3160
11.4% Very poor
Lighting 40.8
Reflection 26.5
Parallax 33.9
12% 33.7 fps
MRender 12
Gravity 41
Splatting 20.5
11% 24.5 fps
Legend(17AA 3829) 2GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 22.21.13.8554
11.3% Very poor
Lighting 41.6
Reflection 26.1
Parallax 33.5
12% 33.7 fps
MRender 11.8
Gravity 40.4
Splatting 20.2
11% 24.1 fps
Asus(1043 1B1D) 2GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 23.21.13.8857
11.3% Very poor
Lighting 41.5
Reflection 26.1
Parallax 33.5
12% 33.7 fps
MRender 11.7
Gravity 40.2
Splatting 20.1
11% 24 fps
HP(103C 80A4) 2GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 26.21.14.3136
11% Very poor
Lighting 40.6
Reflection 26.1
Parallax 32.7
12% 33.1 fps
MRender 11.9
Gravity 39
Splatting 19.9
11% 23.6 fps
MSI(1462 1113) 2GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 25.21.14.1694
10.6% Very poor
Lighting 32.8
Reflection 22.9
Parallax 30.4
10% 28.7 fps
MRender 13.1
Gravity 41.2
Splatting 20.5
11% 24.9 fps
Asus(1043 1A6D) 2GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 23.21.13.9065
10.5% Very poor
Lighting 35.2
Reflection 26.2
Parallax 33.6
11% 31.7 fps
MRender 12
Gravity 36.9
Splatting 20.3
10% 23.1 fps
Asus(1043 241A) 2GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 26.21.14.3136
9.4% Terrible
Lighting 29.7
Reflection 23
Parallax 25.2
9% 26 fps
MRender 11.1
Gravity 36.4
Splatting 19.1
10% 22.2 fps
Acer(1025 0974) 2GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 25.21.14.1917
9.23% Terrible
Lighting 31.6
Reflection 26.1
Parallax 31.8
10% 29.8 fps
MRender 13
Gravity 40.1
Splatting 0.1
9% 17.7 fps
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Based on statistics from 7,739 user benchmarks.

Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price
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HP(103C 80A4) 10% 10% ± 1%
Asus(1043 1A6D) 8% 10% ± 1%
HP(103C 8096) 7% 10% ± 2%
Asus(1043 246A) 7% 10% ± 2%
Acer(1025 100D) 6% 11% ± 1%
Acer(1025 098C) 4% 11% ± 2%
Legend(17AA 3829) 4% 10% ± 1%
Asus(1043 1B1D) 3% 11% ± 0%
Device(1B0A 2281) 2% 11% ± 1%
HP(103C 80E6) 2% 10% ± 1%
Clevo(1558 6504) 2% 11% ± 1%
Asus(1043 1A9D) 2% 10% ± 1%
Acer(1025 0993) 2% 11% ± 1%
Legend(17AA 3821) 2% 11% ± 0%
Acer(1025 102F) 2% 10% ± 1%
Acer(1025 1031) 2% 10% ± 1%
HP(103C 80DE) 2% 10% ± 1%
Asus(1043 241A) 2% 10% ± 2%
Asus(1043 1B6D) 2% 9% ± 2%
Acer(1025 0989) 1% 10% ± 1%
Legend(17AA 504D) 1% 11% ± 0%
HP(103C 80A5) 1% 11% ± 1%
Device(1B0A 2109) 1% 10% ± 2%
MSI(1462 1116) 1% 8% ± 3%
Asus(1043 1CDD) 1% 11% ± 1%
HP(103C 80A3) 1% 9% ± 2%
MSI(1462 114C) 1% 11% ± 1%
Sanyo(144D C757) 1% 11% ± 2%
HP(103C 8095) 1% 10% ± 2%
MSI(1462 1112) 1% 11% ± 0%
Clevo(1558 6507) 1% 9% ± 4%
Legend(17AA 3839) 1% 10% ± 0%
Asus(1043 1D2D) 1% 11% ± 0%
Asus(1043 12DF) 1% 10% ± 2%
Asus(1043 195D) 1% 11% ± 1%
Acer(1025 096D) 1% 11% ± 0%
HP(103C 80DD) 1% 11% ± 0%
Asus(1043 1A7D) 1% 10% ± 1%
Dell(1028 06EF) 1% 11% ± 0%
Acer(1025 0974) 1% 11% ± 1%
MSI(1462 114D) 1% 11% ± 1%
Legend(17AA 3917) 1% 11% ± 1%
HP(103C 8097) 1% 6% ± 3%
MSI(1462 1113) 1% 10% ± 2%
Asus(1043 23BA) 1% 11% ± 0%
Legend(17AA 5042) 1% 11% ± 0%
HP(103C 80E5) 1% 11% ± 1%
HP(103C 816D) 1% 8% ± 2%
Asus(1043 10F0) 1% 11% ± 0%
Acer(1025 1040) 0% 11% ± 0%
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Desktop 42%
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Workstation 22%
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System: HP Pavilion Notebook

CPU
Core i5-6200UIntelBench 32%, 68,237 samples3,384x
Core i7-6500UIntelBench 35%, 56,632 samples2,632x
Core i5-7200UIntelBench 37%, 96,373 samples2,624x
GPU
GTX 940MNvidiaBench 10%, 7,739 samples1x
SSD
MZNTY128HDHP-000H1 128GBSamsungBench 78%, 2,605 samples477x
MZNLN128HAHQ-000H1 128GBSamsungBench 79%, 4,285 samples432x
PM961 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBSamsung  $76Bench 179%, 39,880 samples430x
RAM
HMT41GS6BFR8A-PB 1x8GBHynixBench 28%, 43,111 samples1,076x
HMA81GS6AFR8N-UH 1x8GBHynixBench 37%, 62,773 samples996x
M471B1G73EB0-YK0 1x8GBSamsungBench 28%, 17,600 samples876x
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Terrible (edit your comment) Add link

1 month ago.

I use it at home and it has all the functionality that i would need for now.

GBR-User
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3,538

Poor

21 days ago.

Genuinely the least durable thing I've ever seen, burns out in 5 microseconds (ASUS K501UB, i5-6200U + 8GB RAM)

BRA-User
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2,885

Excellent

8 months ago.

This card has a better performance than radeon 520 , that is the one I'm comparing to. It's a decent low end card for portable devices.

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