NVIDIA GeForce 940M vs AMD Radeon E8950

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce 940M and 8GB VRAM Radeon E8950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 940M 's Advantages

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

Lower TDP (75W vs 95W)

AMD Radeon E8950 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 940M

1.124 TFLOPS

Radeon E8950 +264%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce 940M

VS

Radeon E8950

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Sep 2015

GeForce 900M

Generation

Embedded

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1020 MHz

Base Clock

735 MHz

1098 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

512

Shading Units

2048

32

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.57 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

35.14 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.096 TFLOPS

1124 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

35.14 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

256.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

Amethyst

N16S-GT1-KB-B

GPU Variant

E8950

Maxwell

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

5 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

95W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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