NVIDIA GeForce 940A vs AMD Radeon R5 M230

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 940A

AMD Radeon R5 M230

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 940A and 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 M230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 940A 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

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 M230 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 940A +121%

0.863 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M230

0.39 TFLOPS

GeForce 940A

VS

Radeon R5 M230

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Jan 2014

GeForce 900A

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1029 MHz

Base Clock

825 MHz

1124 MHz

Boost Clock

855 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

16.02GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

5

-

384

Shading Units

320

16

TMUs

20

8

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.992 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.880 GPixel/s

17.98 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.20 GTexel/s

-

863.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

390.4 GFLOPS

26.98 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

24.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

33W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

GM108

GPU Name

Jet

-

GPU Variant

Jet S3 ULT

Maxwell

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

0.69 billion

Unknown

Die Size

56 mm²

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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