AMD Radeon R9 M290X vs NVIDIA GeForce 940MX

VS

AMD Radeon R9 M290X

NVIDIA GeForce 940MX

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X and 2GB VRAM GeForce 940MX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M290X 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

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

896 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 940MX 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

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

Lower TDP (23W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X +141%

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce 940MX

0.954 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X

VS

GeForce 940MX

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Jan 2016

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1004 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

1242 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

16.02GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

384

80

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.936 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

29.81 GTexel/s

-

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

953.9 GFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

29.81 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

23W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

GM108

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

N16S-GTR-S

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

Unknown

212 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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