NVIDIA GeForce 940A vs AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 940A

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 940A and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 56 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 940A 's Advantages

Lower TDP (33W vs 210W)

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 11% (1250MHz vs 1124MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (402.4GB/s vs 16.02GB/s)

3200 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 940A

0.863 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Vega 56 +938%

8.96 TFLOPS

GeForce 940A

VS

Radeon Pro Vega 56

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Aug 2017

GeForce 900A

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1029 MHz

Base Clock

1138 MHz

1124 MHz

Boost Clock

1250 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

786 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR3

Memory Type

HBM2

64bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

16.02GB/s

Bandwidth

402.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

56

-

384

Shading Units

3584

16

TMUs

224

8

ROPs

64

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.992 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.00 GPixel/s

17.98 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

280.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

17.92 TFLOPS

863.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.960 TFLOPS

26.98 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

560.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

33W

TDP

210W

-

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM108

GPU Name

Vega 10

-

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

Maxwell

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

Unknown

Transistors

12.5 billion

Unknown

Die Size

495 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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