NVIDIA GeForce 940MX vs AMD Radeon R5 M420

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 940MX

AMD Radeon R5 M420

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce 940MX and 4GB VRAM Radeon R5 M420 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 940MX 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 46% (1242MHz vs 850MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (16.02GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

64 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 M420 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 940MX +75%

0.954 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M420

0.544 TFLOPS

GeForce 940MX

VS

Radeon R5 M420

Graphics Card

Jan 2016

Release Date

May 2016

GeForce 900M

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1004 MHz

Base Clock

780 MHz

1242 MHz

Boost Clock

850 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

16.02GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

5

-

384

Shading Units

320

24

TMUs

20

8

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.936 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.800 GPixel/s

29.81 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.00 GTexel/s

-

953.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

544.0 GFLOPS

29.81 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

34.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

23W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GM108

GPU Name

Jet

N16S-GTR-S

GPU Variant

Jet PRO (216-0856040)

Maxwell

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

0.69 billion

Unknown

Die Size

56 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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