Nvidia GeForce 940M Lower-Mid-Range Laptop Video Card
The Nvidia GeForce 940M is a lower-mid-range dedicated video card, aimed to boost graphics capabilities of the mainstream non-gaming laptops. Many of these notebooks come with just basic integrated graphics good for only casual and totally non-demanding games. The GeForce 940M makes many of the demanding blockbuster titles playable on these machines, after you lower graphics detail settings and resolution. In addition, the dedicated GPU improves performance of some programs, primarily video editing and photography editing software with support for graphics acceleration.
As a side-note, the widely adopted GeForce 940MX performs very similar to the 940M and is only slightly faster.
Nvidia GeForce 940M 3D Mark 11 Benchmark
Gameplays
YouTube lists many 940M gameplay videos by various users with different laptop configurations. For instance, GTA 5 is playable on mostly high settings and 1366×768 resolution, with frame rates above 30fps. The same applies to Battlefield 4.
Most of the time, you’ll see the GPU paired with one of the Intel Core U series processors, like the i5-5200U and i7-5500U.
Check out laptops with Nvidia GeForce 940M.
Note: The benchmark scores of the listed graphics processors are averages measured across various devices with these processors. The scores and real-world performance of the Nvidia GeForce 940M and compared GPUs may vary depending on the notebooks' other components, settings, cooling, and other factors (especially single-channel vs faster dual-channel RAM and speed of the main processor). However, the benchmark results, as well as gameplay videos, are good indicators of the graphics processors' performance.
Specifications of the Nvidia GeForce 940M
Here are the most important specs of the Nvidia GeForce 940M:
| GPU Name | Nvidia GeForce 940M |
|---|---|
| GPU Type | Dedicated video card (has its own video memory) |
| Number of Execution Units, Cores, Shaders | 384 unified |
| ROPs / TMUs | 16 / 32 |
| Core Clock Speed | Default 1072 MHz, Boost 1176MHz |
| Memory Bus Width | 64-bit |
| Video Memory Size | 2GB |
| Memory Type | DDR3 |
| Video Memory Speed | 1000 MHz |
| Production Technology | 28-nanometer |
| 3D Mark 11 (Performance Mode) Score | 2350 |
User Reviews, Q&A, and Videos on the Nvidia GeForce 940M
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Avinash Pandey –
I am trying to encode media with n264 encoder it fails, could you please help me what to do next to enabling the encoding, driver has been updated
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2 out of 5 It really is just trash
John Moe –
ive been running this gpu on my 2015 hp envy and at first it ran okay, but by 2020, after 2 clean resets, the computer can barely but 40 fps on minecraft windows 10 with 16 chunk render.
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Ankit –
nvidia 840m vs 940m ? which one is better
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Danijel Z –
They are basically the same GPUs with the 940M having a bit faster clock speed as the main difference. However, for some reason 3D Mark test show the 840M is marginally better. During gaming you won’t notice any difference between them.