AMD Radeon E8870 vs NVIDIA GeForce 940A

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon E8870 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 940A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon E8870 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 16.02GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 940A 's Advantages

Boost Clock1124MHz

Lower TDP (33W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon E8870 +77%

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce 940A

0.863 TFLOPS

Radeon E8870

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GeForce 940A

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

Mar 2015

Embedded

Generation

GeForce 900A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1029 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1124 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

16.02GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

384

48

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.992 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.98 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

863.2 GFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

26.98 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

GM108

Saturn PRO

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

Unknown

160 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

75W

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

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.0

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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