AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce 940A

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AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce 940A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 Mobile and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 940A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 16.02GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 940A 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 5% (1124MHz vs 1074MHz)

Lower TDP (33W vs 85W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470 Mobile +409%

4.399 TFLOPS

GeForce 940A

0.863 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470 Mobile

VS

GeForce 940A

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Mar 2015

Mobility Radeon

Generation

GeForce 900A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

1029 MHz

1074 MHz

Boost Clock

1124 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

16.02GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

384

128

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

34.37 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.992 GPixel/s

137.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.98 GTexel/s

4.399 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.399 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

863.2 GFLOPS

274.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

26.98 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GM108

Ellesmere PRO

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Maxwell

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

Unknown

232 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

85W

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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