NVIDIA GeForce 940A vs AMD Radeon HD 8550M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 940A and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8550M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 940A 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 32% (1124MHz vs 850MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (16.02GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

64 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 940A +58%

0.863 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8550M

0.544 TFLOPS

GeForce 940A

VS

Radeon HD 8550M

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Jul 2014

GeForce 900A

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1029 MHz

Base Clock

650 MHz

1124 MHz

Boost Clock

850 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

16.02GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/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

6.800 GPixel/s

17.98 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

863.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

544.0 GFLOPS

26.98 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

34.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM108

GPU Name

Sun

-

GPU Variant

Sun S3 LE (216-0841036)

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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