GeForce 840M vs Radeon R5 M330

GeForce 840M
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 12 Mar 2014
GeForce 840M
Radeon R5 M330
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 5 May 2015
Radeon R5 M330

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce 840M
    171%
  • Radeon R5 M330
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce 840M

Around 71% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R5 M330

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 840M

HWBench recommends GeForce 840M

The GeForce 840M is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 840MRadeon R5 M330
GPU NameGM108 (N15S-GT)vsExo (Exo PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size0 mm²vs77 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs1,040 million
Shaders384vs320
Compute Units3vs5
Core clock1029 MHzvs955 MHz
ROPs8vs8
TMUs16vs20

Memory Configuration

GeForce 840MRadeon R5 M330
Memory TypeDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1001 MHz
2002 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 840MRadeon R5 M330
TDP33 wattsvs18 watts
Release Date12 Mar 2014vs5 May 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 840M
    8.23 GP/s
  • Radeon R5 M330
    8.24 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 840M
    16.46 GT/s
  • Radeon R5 M330
    20.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 840M
    16.02 GB/s
  • Radeon R5 M330
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 840M
    790.30 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R5 M330
    659.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce 840M
    2430
  • Radeon R5 M330
    1420

Points (higher is better)

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