NVIDIA GeForce 840M vs AMD Radeon R5 A230

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce 840M and 4GB VRAM Radeon R5 A230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 840M 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 31% (1124MHz vs 855MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (16.02GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

64 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 A230 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 840M +57%

0.863 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 A230

0.547 TFLOPS

GeForce 840M

VS

Radeon R5 A230

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Jan 2014

GeForce 800M

Generation

All-In-One

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1029 MHz

Base Clock

780 MHz

1124 MHz

Boost Clock

855 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

16.02GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

5

384

Shading Units

320

16

TMUs

20

8

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

8.992 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.840 GPixel/s

17.98 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.10 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

863.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

547.2 GFLOPS

26.98 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

34.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM108

GPU Name

Jet

N15S-GT

GPU Variant

Jet PRO (216-0856040)

Maxwell

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

0.69 billion

Unknown

Die Size

56 mm²

Board Design

33W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.3

Vulkan

1.2.170

5.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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