GeForce 940A vs Radeon R7 M265

GeForce 940A
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 13 Mar 2015
GeForce 940A
Radeon R7 M265
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 9 Jan 2014
Radeon R7 M265

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce 940A
    132%
  • Radeon R7 M265
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce 940A

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 32% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 M265

Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce 940A

HWBench recommends GeForce 940A

The GeForce 940A is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 940ARadeon R7 M265
GPU NameGM108 (N16S-GT-S)vsOpal (Opal XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size0 mm²vs77 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs1,040 million
Shaders384vs384
Compute Units3vs6
Core clock1029 MHzvs725 MHz
ROPs8vs8
TMUs16vs24

Memory Configuration

GeForce 940ARadeon R7 M265
Memory TypeDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1001 MHz
2002 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 940ARadeon R7 M265
TDP33 wattsvs0 watts
Release Date13 Mar 2015vs9 Jan 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 940A
    8.23 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 M265
    6.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 940A
    16.46 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 M265
    19.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 940A
    16.02 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 M265
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 940A
    790.30 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 M265
    633.60 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce 940A
    2450
  • Radeon R7 M265
    1850

Points (higher is better)

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