In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 860M 2GB SLI are massively better than the Nvidia GeForce 940MX 2GB.

The GeForce 940MX 2GB has a 93 MHz higher core clock speed than the GTX 860M, but the GTX 860M has 56 more Texture Mapping Units than the GeForce 940MX 2GB. As a result, the GTX 860M exhibits a 55.4 GTexel/s better Texture Fill Rate than the GeForce 940MX 2GB. This still holds weight but shader performance is generally more relevant, particularly since both of these GPUs support at least DirectX 10.

The GeForce 940MX 2GB has a 93 MHz higher core clock speed than the GTX 860M, but the GTX 860M has 24 more Render Output Units than the GeForce 940MX 2GB. As a result, the GTX 860M exhibits a 23.9 GPixel/s better Pixel Fill Rate than the GeForce 940MX 2GB. However, both GPUs support DirectX 9 or above, and pixeling performance is only really relevant when comparing older cards.

The GeForce 940MX 2GB was released over a year more recently than the GTX 860M, and so the GeForce 940MX 2GB is likely to have better driver support, meaning it will be more optimized for running the latest games when compared to the GTX 860M.

The GTX 860M has 2048 MB more video memory than the GeForce 940MX 2GB, so is likely to be much better at displaying game textures at higher resolutions. This is supported by the fact that the GTX 860M also has superior memory performance overall.

The GTX 860M has 144.4 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the GeForce 940MX 2GB, which means that the memory performance of the GTX 860M is massively better than the GeForce 940MX 2GB.

The GeForce 940MX 2GB has 384 Shader Processing Units and the GeForce GTX 860M 2GB SLI has 1280. However, the actual shader performance of the GeForce 940MX 2GB is 644 and the actual shader performance of the GTX 860M is 1896. The GTX 860M having 1252 better shader performance and an altogether better performance when taking into account other relevant data means that the GTX 860M delivers a massively smoother and more efficient experience when processing graphical data than the GeForce 940MX 2GB.

The GeForce 940MX 2GB requires 25 Watts to run and the GeForce GTX 860M 2GB SLI requires 120 Watts. The GTX 860M requires 95 Watts more than the GeForce 940MX 2GB to run. The difference is significant enough that the GTX 860M may have an adverse affect on your yearly electricity bills in comparison to the GeForce 940MX 2GB.