GeForce 940M vs Radeon HD 8530M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce 940M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8530M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 940M 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 57% (1098MHz vs 700MHz)
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
192 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 940M
+150%
1124
Radeon HD 8530M
448
Graphics Card
Mar 2015
Release Date
Jan 2014
GeForce 900M
Generation
Solar System
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1020 MHz
Base Clock
650 MHz
1098 MHz
Boost Clock
700 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
DDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
64bit
14.40GB/s
Bandwidth
14.40GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
6
512
Shading Units
320
32
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
8
64 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
128 KB
Theoretical Performance
17.57 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.600 GPixel/s
35.14 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
11.20 GTexel/s
1124 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
448.0 GFLOPS
35.14 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
28.00 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
Unknown
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
Graphics Processor
GM107
GPU Name
Mars
N16S-GT1-KB-B
GPU Variant
Mars S3 LE
(216-0842054)
Maxwell
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.87 billion
Transistors
0.95 billion
148 mm²
Die Size
77 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
1.3
Vulkan
1.2.170
5.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)