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Nvidia GeForce 840M
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See full details GeForce GT 540M vs 840M |
Released January, 2011
Nvidia GeForce GT 540M
- 672 MHz
- 1 GB DDR3
5.6 Out of 10
by Syed-Muhammad-Usman-Pirzada (Oct, 2013)Wow, #AsRock and #BMW DesignWorks USA’s #M8 Gaming Machine is a beauty.
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Released March, 2014
Nvidia GeForce 840M
- 1 GHz
- 1 GB DDR3
6 Out of 10
by Tim-Verry (Jun, 2013)These chips are still based on Kepler (600-series), but feature more CUDA cores, more memory, a wider memory bus, and faster clockspeeds.
GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of 540M vs 840M among Laptop GPUs
Gaming | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 21 more | |
Graphics | |
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| T-Rex, Manhattan, Cloud Gate Factor, Sky Diver Factor and 1 more | |
Computing | |
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| Face Detection, Ocean Surface Simulation and 3 more | |
Performance per Watt | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
Value | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
Noise and Power | |
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| TDP, Idle Power Consumption, Load Power Consumption and 2 more | |
| 6 | Overall Score |
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| Much better 3DMark06 score | 7,986 | vs | 2,338 | Around 3.5x better 3DMark06 score | |||
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| Wider memory bus | 128 bit | vs | 64 bit | 2x wider memory bus | |||
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| Significantly higher clock speed | 1,029 MHz | vs | 672 MHz | Around 55% higher clock speed | |||
| Significantly better 3DMark 11 graphics score | 10,332 | vs | 888 | Around 11.8x better 3DMark 11 graphics score | |||
| Better 3DMark vantage graphics score | 6,627 | vs | 3,551 | More than 85% better 3DMark vantage graphics score | |||
| Slightly better PassMark score | 879 | vs | 650 | More than 35% better PassMark score | |||
| Significantly better T-Rex score | 3,366.34 | vs | 2,812.35 | Around 20% better T-Rex score | |||
| Slightly better floating-point performance | 790.3 GFLOPS | vs | 258.05 GFLOPS | More than 3x better floating-point performance | |||
| Better particle simulation score | 184.99 mInteraction/s | vs | 39.35 mInteraction/s | Around 4.8x better particle simulation score | |||
| More shading units | 384 | vs | 96 | 288 more shading units | |||
| Better PassMark direct compute score | 726 | vs | 337 | Around 2.2x better PassMark direct compute score | |||
| Slightly better cloud gate factor score | 10.08 | vs | 7.97 | More than 25% better cloud gate factor score | |||
| Higher memory clock speed | 1,001 MHz | vs | 900 MHz | More than 10% higher memory clock speed | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of GeForce GT 540M vs 840M
Bitcoin mining Data courtesy CompuBench
Face detection Data courtesy CompuBench
Ocean surface simulation Data courtesy CompuBench
T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Manhattan (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Fire Strike Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
Sky Diver Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
Cloud Gate Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
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