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GTX 940M

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Release date ≈ Q2 2015.

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Average Bench: 10.5% (224th of 613)

Based on 8,449 user benchmarks.  Device: 10DE 1347 Model: NVIDIA GeForce 940M
Poor: 7%Average: 10.5% Great: 12%

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Terrible average bench

The Nvidia GTX 940M averaged 89.4% 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) 36.5fps
Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy) 38.6fps

Excellent consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Nvidia GTX 940M is just 4.04%. 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) 25fps
Avg. Render target array GShader (Sphere) 12fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 8,449 samples)
Rank 22410.5%
Min Avg Max
11.4 Lighting 36.5 41.8
21.4 Reflection 25 26.7
24.6 Parallax 32.6 36.5
10.9% 31.4 fps
Min Avg Max
11.2 MRender 12 13.2
25.5 Gravity 38.6 41.3
0.2 Splatting 17.5 20.9
10.3% 22.7 fps
User Benchmarks Bench 3D DX9 3D DX10 3D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
Clevo(1558 6504) 2GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 23.21.13.8927
11.5% Very poor
Lighting 41.6
Reflection 26.3
Parallax 34.7
12% 34.2 fps
MRender 13.1
Gravity 41
Splatting 20
11% 24.7 fps
Acer(1025 096D) 2GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 22.21.13.8476
11.5% Very poor
Lighting 41.9
Reflection 26.1
Parallax 34.3
12% 34.1 fps
MRender 12.9
Gravity 40.5
Splatting 20.2
11% 24.5 fps
Asus(1043 1A9D) 2GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 23.21.13.8857
11.3% Very poor
Lighting 41.3
Reflection 26
Parallax 33.4
12% 33.6 fps
MRender 11.8
Gravity 40.5
Splatting 20.1
11% 24.1 fps
Legend(17AA 3821) 2GB
Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 21.21.13.7667
11.2% Very poor
Lighting 40.7
Reflection 26.1
Parallax 32.9
12% 33.2 fps
MRender 11.9
Gravity 40
Splatting 20.2
11% 24 fps
Acer(1025 102F) ≥ 4GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 23.21.13.8792
11.1% Very poor
Lighting 41.5
Reflection 26.3
Parallax 37
12% 34.9 fps
MRender 12.2
Gravity 39.9
Splatting 14.9
10% 22.3 fps
Asus(1043 1A6D) 2GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 25.21.14.1967
6.62% Terrible
Lighting 13.4
Reflection 20.9
Parallax 26.3
6% 20.2 fps
MRender 11.9
Gravity 20.5
Splatting 20.2
7% 17.5 fps
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The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 17,560,585 GPUs tested.

 Popular Cards

Based on statistics from 8,449 user benchmarks.

Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price
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HP(103C 80A4) 12% 11% ± 1%
Asus(1043 246A) 8% 10% ± 1%
HP(103C 8096) 7% 9% ± 3%
Asus(1043 1A6D) 7% 10% ± 2%
Acer(1025 098C) 6% 10% ± 2%
Acer(1025 100D) 4% 11% ± 1%
Asus(1043 1B1D) 4% 11% ± 0%
HP(103C 80E6) 4% 10% ± 1%
Legend(17AA 3829) 4% 11% ± 1%
Device(1B0A 2281) 2% 11% ± 1%
HP(103C 8097) 2% 9% ± 3%
Asus(1043 195D) 2% 10% ± 1%
Legend(17AA 3821) 2% 11% ± 1%
Acer(1025 102F) 2% 10% ± 1%
Acer(1025 0993) 1% 11% ± 1%
HP(103C 80DE) 1% 11% ± 0%
Legend(17AA 504D) 1% 11% ± 0%
Asus(1043 1B6D) 1% 9% ± 2%
Clevo(1558 6504) 1% 11% ± 0%
HP(103C 80A5) 1% 11% ± 1%
MSI(1462 114C) 1% 11% ± 1%
Asus(1043 241A) 1% 11% ± 1%
Sanyo(144D C757) 1% 12% ± 1%
Asus(1043 1D2D) 1% 11% ± 0%
Asus(1043 1A7D) 1% 11% ± 1%
Acer(1025 1031) 1% 10% ± 1%
Device(1B0A 2109) 1% 10% ± 2%
Legend(17AA 3839) 1% 11% ± 1%
Legend(17AA 3917) 1% 11% ± 1%
MSI(1462 1112) 1% 11% ± 1%
Asus(1043 23BA) 1% 11% ± 0%
Legend(17AA 5042) 1% 11% ± 1%
HP(103C 80DD) 1% 11% ± 0%
Dell(1028 06EF) 1% 11% ± 0%
Asus(1043 12DF) 1% 10% ± 2%
Asus(1043 1A9D) 1% 9% ± 4%
MSI(1462 1113) 1% 12% ± 0%
MSI(1462 1116) 1% 9% ± 3%
Acer(1025 0963) 1% 10% ± 2%
Asus(1043 101E) 1% 11% ± 0%
Acer(1025 0974) 1% 11% ± 1%
HP(103C 80EE) 1% 10% ± 1%
Asus(1043 1CDD) 1% 11% ± 1%
HP(103C 816D) 1% 10% ± 1%
Asus(1043 245A) 0% 11% ± 1%
Acer(1025 0985) 0% 11% ± 0%
Acer(1025 0989) 0% 10% ± 0%
HP(103C 8095) 0% 10% ± 2%
Legend(17AA 2225) 0% 10% ± 1%
HP(103C 80E5) 0% 11% ± 1%
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Gaming 17%
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Desktop 43%
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Workstation
Workstation 24%
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System: HP Pavilion Notebook

CPU
Core i5-6200UIntelBench 42%, 66,084 samples3,101x
Core i7-6500UIntelBench 46%, 56,010 samples2,454x
Core i5-7200UIntelBench 48%, 89,566 samples2,427x
GPU
GTX 940MNvidiaBench 11%, 8,449 samples1x
SSD
MZNTY128HDHP-000H1 128GBSamsungBench 77%, 2,422 samples458x
PM961 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBSamsung  $46Bench 178%, 36,680 samples418x
SD8SNAT-256G-1006 256GBSandiskBench 63%, 1,627 samples342x
RAM
HMT41GS6BFR8A-PB 1x8GBHynixBench 28%, 40,243 samples993x
HMA81GS6AFR8N-UH 1x8GBHynixBench 38%, 55,663 samples928x
M471B1G73EB0-YK0 1x8GBSamsungBench 27%, 18,053 samples817x
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 Comments

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USA-User
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Excellent (edit your comment) Add link

18 days ago.

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

GBR-User
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3,374

Terrible

2 months ago.

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

TUR-User
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3,216

Good

14 days ago.

my dad teamfortress41 tries to flex on me but he doesnt know gtx 980 is 1000% better than his gtx 940m

CAN-User
Avatar level
2,872

Excellent

30 days ago.

is gud :)

FRA-User
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2,793

Terrible

29 days ago.

it's trash mate

BRA-User
Avatar level
2,757

Excellent

6 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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