Component comparison
GeForce RTX 4090 vs GeForce 940M
GeForce RTX 4090 vs GeForce 940M — detailed GPU comparison: performance, gaming FPS, specifications.
Advantages
A
GeForce RTX 4090
- + Release year (+8)
- + VRAM (GB) (+14 GB)
- + Memory clock (MHz) (+1350 MHz)
- + Bandwidth (GB/s) (+1020 GB/s)
- + Memory bus (bit) (+320 bit)
- + TGP / TDP (W) (+45 W)
- + Lithography (nm) (-24 nm)
- + Transistors (M) (+74,430M)
- + CUDA cores (+16000)
- + TMUs (+488)
- + ROPs (+168)
- + FP32 performance (TFLOPS) (+81.68 TFLOPS)
- + Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) (+425.93 GPixel/s)
- + Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) (+1254.86 GTexel/s)
- + Energy efficiency (+35.5)
- + PassMark (overall) (+25914)
- + 3DMark Fire Strike (+44569)
- + Normalized score (+68.8)
B
GeForce 940M
- + Die size (mm²) (+461 mm²)
Detailed spec comparison
| Spec |
Component A
GeForce RTX 4090
|
Component B
GeForce 940M
|
|---|---|---|
| Release year | 2023 (+8) | 2015 |
| VRAM (GB) | 16 GB (+14 GB) | 2 GB |
| Memory type | GDDR6 | DDR3 |
| Memory clock (MHz) | 2250 MHz (+1350 MHz) | 900 MHz |
| Bandwidth (GB/s) | 1034 GB/s (+1020 GB/s) | 14 GB/s |
| Memory bus (bit) | 384 bit (+320 bit) | 64 bit |
| TGP / TDP (W) | 120 W (+45 W) | 75 W |
| Lithography (nm) | 4 nm (-24 nm) | 28 nm |
| Transistors (M) | 76,300M (+74,430M) | 1,870M |
| Die size (mm²) | 609 mm² | 148 mm² (+461 mm²) |
| Base clock (MHz) | — | 1020 MHz |
| Boost clock (MHz) | — | 1098 MHz |
| CUDA cores | 16,384 (+16000) | 384 |
| TMUs | 512 (+488) | 24 |
| ROPs | 176 (+168) | 8 |
| RT cores | 128 | — |
| Tensor cores | 512 | — |
| FP32 performance (TFLOPS) | 82.58 TFLOPS (+81.68 TFLOPS) | 0.90 TFLOPS |
| Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) | 443.50 GPixel/s (+425.93 GPixel/s) | 17.57 GPixel/s |
| Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) | 1290.00 GTexel/s (+1254.86 GTexel/s) | 35.14 GTexel/s |
| Energy efficiency | 41.9 (+35.5) | 6.4 |
| PassMark (overall) | 27,047 (+25914) | 1,133 |
| 3DMark Time Spy | 21,251 | — |
| 3DMark Fire Strike | 46,191 (+44569) | 1,622 |
| Geekbench OpenCL | — | 6,025 |
| Geekbench Vulkan | — | 4,549 |
| Normalized score | 75.0 (+68.8) | 6.2 |
Only in component A
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In both
CUDA
FPS in games (1080p)
| Game | GeForce RTX 4090 | GeForce 940M | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Battlefield 5 | 170 FPS | 17 FPS | +900% (A) |
| CS:GO | 240 FPS | 240 FPS | ≈ |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 300 FPS | 9 FPS | +3233.3% (A) |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 147 FPS | 5 FPS | +2840% (A) |
| Dota 2 | 199 FPS | 49 FPS | +306.1% (A) |
| Far Cry 5 | 173 FPS | 11 FPS | +1472.7% (A) |
| Fortnite | 300 FPS | 36 FPS | +733.3% (A) |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 250 FPS | 14 FPS | +1685.7% (A) |
| Forza Horizon 5 | 281 FPS | 6 FPS | +4583.3% (A) |
| GTA V | 140 FPS | 140 FPS | ≈ |
| GTA V | 154 FPS | 14 FPS | +1000% (A) |
| Metro Exodus | 156 FPS | 2 FPS | +7700% (A) |
| Overwatch | 240 FPS | 240 FPS | ≈ |
| PUBG | 140 FPS | 140 FPS | ≈ |
| Resident Evil 4 Remake | 218 FPS | 3 FPS | +7166.7% (A) |
| The Witcher 3 | 394 FPS | 10 FPS | +3840% (A) |
| The Witcher 3 | 290 FPS | 10 FPS | +2800% (A) |
| Valorant | 350 FPS | 40 FPS | +775% (A) |
Specs from public sources (PassMark, Geekbench). FPS measured at 1080p medium settings.
Based on the comparison:
GeForce RTX 4090 wins 18 of the comparable criteria.
The choice depends on your use case.
🤔 How to choose
Universal advice for any use case.
- Reliability vs price: reliability (median 50) ↔ price (median 385.1).
- Weight vs CPU: mobility (median 48) ↔ overall performance (median 49.8).
- Upgradeability vs battery: upgradability (median 50) ↔ battery life (median 2.8).