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New Mainstream Nvidia Geforce 920MX, 930MX and 940MX GPUs on the way

New Mainstream Nvidia Geforce 920MX, 930MX and 940MX on the way
New Mainstream Nvidia Geforce 920MX, 930MX and 940MX on the way
There will be an update in the mainstream segment of mobile graphics cards from Nvidia with the Geforce 920MX, 930MX und 940MX.

Notebookcheck has exclusive information from an industry insider claiming that Nvidia will soon refresh its mainstream lineup of mobile GPUs. More precisely, expect successors to the current Geforce 920M930M and 940M, which are all used in numerous low-end to mainstream multimedia notebooks.

The picture we have shows three new GPUs with the code names N16V-GMR, N16S-GMR and N16S-GTR, which will be released as the GeForce 920MX, GeForce 930MX and GeForce 940MX, respectively, by early next year. According to our information, the raw specifications of the new chips should be on par with the current 920M, 930M and 940M. One new feature, however, is the (optional) support of GDDR5 VRAM. The TDP of the new chips is also similar to the current models at 15-25 Watts.

3DMark 11 - 1280x720 Performance (sort by value)
Microsoft Surface Book Core i5
6300U, Maxwell GPU (940M, GDDR5)
2711 Points
Asus Zenbook UX303UB-R4100T
6500U, GeForce 940M
2488 Points
HP Pavilion 17-g120ng
6500U, GeForce 940M
2438 Points
Acer TravelMate P277-MG-7474
5500U, GeForce 940M
2609 Points
3DMark
1920x1080 Fire Strike Score (sort by value)
Microsoft Surface Book Core i5
6300U, Maxwell GPU (940M, GDDR5)
1886 Points
Asus Zenbook UX303UB-R4100T
6500U, GeForce 940M
1428 Points
HP Pavilion 17-g120ng
6500U, GeForce 940M
1387 Points
Acer TravelMate P277-MG-7474
5500U, GeForce 940M
1460 Points
1280x720 Cloud Gate Standard Score (sort by value)
Microsoft Surface Book Core i5
6300U, Maxwell GPU (940M, GDDR5)
7424 Points
Asus Zenbook UX303UB-R4100T
6500U, GeForce 940M
6223 Points
HP Pavilion 17-g120ng
6500U, GeForce 940M
6452 Points
Acer TravelMate P277-MG-7474
5500U, GeForce 940M
6577 Points
1280x720 Ice Storm Standard Score (sort by value)
Microsoft Surface Book Core i5
6300U, Maxwell GPU (940M, GDDR5)
49514 Points
Asus Zenbook UX303UB-R4100T
6500U, GeForce 940M
48845 Points
HP Pavilion 17-g120ng
6500U, GeForce 940M
42425 Points
Acer TravelMate P277-MG-7474
5500U, GeForce 940M
36334 Points
BioShock Infinite
1366x768 Medium Preset (sort by value)
Microsoft Surface Book Core i5
6300U, Maxwell GPU (940M, GDDR5)
64.8 fps
Acer TravelMate P277-MG-7474
5500U, GeForce 940M
52.2 fps
1366x768 High Preset (sort by value)
Microsoft Surface Book Core i5
6300U, Maxwell GPU (940M, GDDR5)
56.5 fps
Acer TravelMate P277-MG-7474
5500U, GeForce 940M
42.5 fps
Tomb Raider
1366x768 Normal Preset AA:FX AF:4x (sort by value)
Microsoft Surface Book Core i5
6300U, Maxwell GPU (940M, GDDR5)
82.8 fps
Asus Zenbook UX303UB-R4100T
6500U, GeForce 940M
59.2 fps
1366x768 High Preset AA:FX AF:8x (sort by value)
Microsoft Surface Book Core i5
6300U, Maxwell GPU (940M, GDDR5)
55.2 fps
Asus Zenbook UX303UB-R4100T
6500U, GeForce 940M
34.1 fps

Thanks to the use of GDDR5 VRAM, the performance of the GPUs can be improved significantly. If you look at the Microsoft Surface Book, for example, you can see that the GDDR5 version (1 GB) of the current Geforce 940M can be up to 20 % faster depending on the benchmark, and the advantages are even higher in some games.

The mentioned N16S-LP from the picture corresponds with the current GeForce 930M in the low-power (LP) segment with a TDP of 12 Watts. This chip will be upgraded with the optional GDDR5 video memory.

As always we will keep our dedicated graphics card pages updated and add benchmarks (synthetic and gaming) as soon as we got a sample in house:

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> Expert Reviews and News on Laptops, Smartphones and Tech Innovations > News > News Archive > Newsarchive 2015 12 > New Mainstream Nvidia Geforce 920MX, 930MX and 940MX GPUs on the way
J. Simon Leitner, 2015-12-12 (Update: 2015-12-13)