GeForce 940MX: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The GeForce 940MX was the default "a little better than integrated" GPU of the mid-2010s — the chip marketing teams put in business laptops to add a graphics line to the spec sheet. The catalog has benchmarked it in 92 games at 1080p across 7 matched models.

Where the 940MX sits in 2026

The catalog scores the chip at 12 — 245th of 341 scored mobile GPUs, deep in the bottom third of the table. The neighborhood says everything: Intel's UHD Graphics 750 (12.2), the GeForce MX130 (12.1) above it, and the Radeon R7 M360 (11.5), FirePro W5130M (11.3) and GeForce 845M (11.1) below. A dedicated 2016 GPU now ranks indistinguishably from ordinary desktop integrated graphics — that was roughly true on day one, and a decade has not improved the comparison.

What the chip brings

The GM107 die on 28 nm — Maxwell architecture in its smallest practical form: 512 shader cores, 4 GB of DDR3 or GDDR5 (configurations varied) on a 64-bit bus with at best 40 GB/s of bandwidth, an 861 MHz boost clock and a 23 W envelope. Roughly 0.88 TFLOPS of throughput, no ray tracing, no DLSS, CUDA as its one modern trick for video and photo acceleration. Public synthetics: PassMark 1507, Time Spy 626.

FPS in games at 1080p

The top of the table is the familiar capped quartet: CS:GO and Overwatch at 240 FPS, GTA V and PUBG at 140 at the high preset — legacy engines that ran on anything even then. Below that the drop is immediate: Team Fortress 2 at 67, Valorant at 50, Dota 2 and F1 2014 at 48, FIFA 18 at 44, Fortnite at 44 and The Sims 4 at 37. The modern shelf is not viable: Counter-Strike 2 posts 14, Battlefield V 16, Forza Horizon 4 18, The Witcher 3 12, Cyberpunk 2077 7, Resident Evil 4 Remake 5, Metro Exodus 6.

Laptops that carry it

The 7 matched models are business and mainstream machines from 2015–2017: Lenovo's ThinkPad T470p at $319, T570p at $259, E470 at $207 and IdeaPad 320 at $266, Dell's Latitude 5580 at $159, and HP's Pavilion 15t-au100 at $309. The roster medians tell the buyer's truth: gaming index 13, overall score 36 — these are office laptops, priced and built as such.

Bottom line

Treat the 940MX as a checkbox GPU: it exists to make an office laptop slightly quicker at decoding video, driving extra monitors and light CUDA work, and it does that fine. As a gaming proposition in 2026 the numbers are definitive — anything past Counter-Strike's predecessor generation is a slideshow. If a $159–$319 machine carrying it fits a productivity budget, the chip is harmless; if the listing implies gaming capability, the catalog's compare pages against any RTX-class chip will correct that impression quickly.