AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce 940A

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AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce 940A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 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 Vega 56 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 16% (1301MHz vs 1124MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 16.02GB/s)

3200 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 940A 's Advantages

Lower TDP (33W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile +980%

9.326 TFLOPS

GeForce 940A

0.863 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

VS

GeForce 940A

Graphics Card

Jun 2018

Release Date

Mar 2015

Mobility Radeon

Generation

GeForce 900A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1138 MHz

Base Clock

1029 MHz

1301 MHz

Boost Clock

1124 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

HBM2

Memory Type

DDR3

2048bit

Memory Bus

64bit

409.6GB/s

Bandwidth

16.02GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

56

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

384

224

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

83.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.992 GPixel/s

291.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.98 GTexel/s

18.65 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.326 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

863.2 GFLOPS

582.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

26.98 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

GM108

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 5.0

Architecture

Maxwell

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

Unknown

495 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

120W

TDP

33W

-

Suggested PSU

-

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

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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