AMD Radeon E9172 MXM vs NVIDIA GeForce 945A

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AMD Radeon E9172 MXM NVIDIA GeForce 945A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon E9172 MXM and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 945A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon E9172 MXM 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 3% (1219MHz vs 1189MHz)

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.00GB/s vs 40.10GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 945A 's Advantages

Lower TDP (33W vs 35W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon E9172 MXM +36%

1.248 TFLOPS

GeForce 945A

0.913 TFLOPS

Radeon E9172 MXM

VS

GeForce 945A

Graphics Card

Oct 2017

Release Date

Mar 2015

Embedded

Generation

GeForce 900A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1124 MHz

Base Clock

1006 MHz

1219 MHz

Boost Clock

1189 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

48.00GB/s

Bandwidth

40.10GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

384

32

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.512 GPixel/s

39.01 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.54 GTexel/s

1248 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1248 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

913.2 GFLOPS

78.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

28.54 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GM108

E9170

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Maxwell

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

Unknown

103 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

35W

TDP

33W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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