NVIDIA GeForce 940MX vs AMD Radeon HD 8870M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 940MX

AMD Radeon HD 8870M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce 940MX and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870M 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 60% (1242MHz vs 775MHz)

AMD Radeon HD 8870M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 16.02GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 940MX

0.954 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870M +3%

0.992 TFLOPS

GeForce 940MX

VS

Radeon HD 8870M

Graphics Card

Jan 2016

Release Date

Apr 2013

GeForce 900M

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1004 MHz

Base Clock

725 MHz

1242 MHz

Boost Clock

775 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

16.02GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

-

384

Shading Units

640

24

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.936 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.40 GPixel/s

29.81 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

31.00 GTexel/s

-

953.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

992.0 GFLOPS

29.81 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

62.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

23W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GM108

GPU Name

Venus

N16S-GTR-S

GPU Variant

Venus XT (216-0846000)

Maxwell

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

1.5 billion

Unknown

Die Size

123 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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