NVIDIA GeForce 940MX vs AMD Radeon R5 M230
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce 940MX and 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 M230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 940MX 's Advantages
Released 2 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 45% (1242MHz vs 855MHz)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (16.02GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)
64 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 940MX
+144%
0.954 TFLOPS
Radeon R5 M230
0.39 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2016
Release Date
Jan 2014
GeForce 900M
Generation
Gem System
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1004 MHz
Base Clock
825 MHz
1242 MHz
Boost Clock
855 MHz
1001 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
DDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
64bit
16.02GB/s
Bandwidth
16.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
5
-
-
-
384
Shading Units
320
24
TMUs
20
8
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.936 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.880 GPixel/s
29.81 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.20 GTexel/s
-
-
-
953.9 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
390.4 GFLOPS
29.81 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
24.40 GFLOPS
Board Design
23W
TDP
Unknown
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GM108
GPU Name
Jet
N16S-GTR-S
GPU Variant
Jet S3 ULT
Maxwell
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
Unknown
Transistors
0.69 billion
Unknown
Die Size
56 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)
