NVIDIA GeForce 940MX vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 940MX

AMD Radeon HD 8970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce 940MX and 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M 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 8 months late

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

Lower TDP (23W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 16.02GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 940MX

0.954 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M +141%

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce 940MX

VS

Radeon HD 8970M

Graphics Card

Jan 2016

Release Date

May 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

850 MHz

1242 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

16.02GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

-

384

Shading Units

1280

24

TMUs

80

8

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.936 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

29.81 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

-

953.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

29.81 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

23W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GM108

GPU Name

Neptune

N16S-GTR-S

GPU Variant

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

Maxwell

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

2.8 billion

Unknown

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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