NVIDIA GeForce 940A vs AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce 940A AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 940A and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 940A 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 5% (1124MHz vs 1074MHz)

Lower TDP (33W vs 85W)

AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 16.02GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 940A

0.863 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470 Mobile +409%

4.399 TFLOPS

GeForce 940A

VS

Radeon RX 470 Mobile

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Aug 2016

GeForce 900A

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1029 MHz

Base Clock

926 MHz

1124 MHz

Boost Clock

1074 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

16.02GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

384

Shading Units

2048

16

TMUs

128

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

8.992 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

34.37 GPixel/s

17.98 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

137.5 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

4.399 TFLOPS

863.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.399 TFLOPS

26.98 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

274.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM108

GPU Name

Ellesmere

-

GPU Variant

Ellesmere PRO

Maxwell

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

Unknown

Transistors

5.7 billion

Unknown

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

33W

TDP

85W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

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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