NVIDIA GeForce 940MX vs AMD Radeon HD 8790M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 940MX AMD Radeon HD 8790M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce 940MX and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8790M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 940MX 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 38% (1242MHz vs 900MHz)

AMD Radeon HD 8790M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 16.02GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 940MX +38%

0.954 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8790M

0.691 TFLOPS

GeForce 940MX

VS

Radeon HD 8790M

Graphics Card

Jan 2016

Release Date

Apr 2013

GeForce 900M

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1004 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1242 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

16.02GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

6

384

Shading Units

384

24

TMUs

24

8

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

9.936 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.200 GPixel/s

29.81 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

21.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

953.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

691.2 GFLOPS

29.81 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

43.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM108

GPU Name

Mars

N16S-GTR-S

GPU Variant

Mars M2 XTX (216-0842036)

Maxwell

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

0.95 billion

Unknown

Die Size

77 mm²

Board Design

23W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

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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