AMD Radeon R9 M470 vs NVIDIA GeForce 940M

VS

AMD Radeon R9 M470

NVIDIA GeForce 940M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M470 and 2GB VRAM GeForce 940M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M470 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 940M 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 10% (1098MHz vs 1000MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M470 +36%

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce 940M

1.124 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M470

VS

GeForce 940M

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Mar 2015

Gem System

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1020 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1098 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

512

48

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.57 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

35.14 GTexel/s

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1124 GFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

35.14 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

75W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Emerald

GPU Name

GM107

Emerald PRO

GPU Variant

N16S-GT1-KB-B

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.0

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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