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

DLSS ReBAR ray_tracing

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).