NVIDIA GeForce 940MX vs AMD Radeon HD 7470A

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 940MX

AMD Radeon HD 7470A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce 940MX and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 7470A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 940MX 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

Boost Clock1242MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (16.02GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

224 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (23W vs 25W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 940MX +377%

0.954 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7470A

0.2 TFLOPS

GeForce 940MX

VS

Radeon HD 7470A

Graphics Card

Jan 2016

Release Date

Jan 2012

GeForce 900M

Generation

All-In-One

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1004 MHz

Base Clock

-

1242 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

16.02GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

-

384

Shading Units

160

24

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.936 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.500 GPixel/s

29.81 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.000 GTexel/s

-

953.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

200.0 GFLOPS

29.81 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

23W

TDP

25W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GM108

GPU Name

Caicos

N16S-GTR-S

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

Unknown

Transistors

0.37 billion

Unknown

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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