GeForce 840M vs Radeon R5 M430

GeForce 840M
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 12 Mar 2014
GeForce 840M
Radeon R5 M430
Memory: 4096Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 15 May 2016
Radeon R5 M430

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 840M

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 M430

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 840MRadeon R5 M430
GPU NameGM108 (N15S-GT)vsJet (Jet PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size0 mm²vs77 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs1,040 million
Shaders384vs320
Compute Units3vs5
Core clock1029 MHzvs780 MHz
ROPs8vs8
TMUs16vs20

Memory Configuration

GeForce 840MRadeon R5 M430
Memory TypeDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1001 MHz
2002 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
2000 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 840MRadeon R5 M430
TDP33 wattsvs0 watts
Release Date12 Mar 2014vs15 May 2016

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 840M
    8.23 GP/s
  • Radeon R5 M430
    6.84 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 840M
    16.46 GT/s
  • Radeon R5 M430
    17.10 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 840M
    16.02 GB/s
  • Radeon R5 M430
    16.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 840M
    790.30 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R5 M430
    547.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

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