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    Nvidia 940Mx dd3 vs 950Mx

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by mitesh ladva, Nov 26, 2016.

  1. mitesh ladva

    mitesh ladva Newbie

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    Nvidia 940Mx dd3 with 16gb ddr4 ram or Nvidia 950Mx ddr5 with 8gb ram ,which configuration is better?

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    mitesh ladva, Nov 26, 2016
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  2. kolias

    kolias Notebook Evangelist

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    I vote option 2,for gaming the ddr5 has almost double perfomance
     
    kolias, Nov 26, 2016
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    mitesh ladva Newbie

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    Extra 8 gb isn't more worth?

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    mitesh ladva, Nov 26, 2016
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  4. TomJGX

    TomJGX I HATE BGA!

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    You can always get more RAM, not that easy to get GDDR5 vRAM lol!
     
    TomJGX, Nov 30, 2016
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    jeffmd Notebook Evangelist

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    What tom said, you can upgrade your system ram (although 8gb will be fine for any games your going to run on a 950m) but you can't upgrade your video memory.

    If it does not come with SSD I would make that your next upgrade, though.
     
    jeffmd, Dec 1, 2016
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