NVIDIA GeForce 940M vs AMD Radeon R9 M270X

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce 940M and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M270X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 940M 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 10% (1098MHz vs 1000MHz)

AMD Radeon R9 M270X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 940M

1.124 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M270X +36%

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce 940M

VS

Radeon R9 M270X

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Feb 2015

GeForce 900M

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1020 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1098 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

12

512

Shading Units

768

32

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.57 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.00 GPixel/s

35.14 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1124 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

35.14 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

96.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

Saturn

N16S-GT1-KB-B

GPU Variant

Saturn PRO (216-0843044)

Maxwell

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2.170

5.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5

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