GeForce 940A vs Radeon HD 5770

GeForce 940A
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 13 Mar 2015
GeForce 940A
Radeon HD 5770
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Oct 2009
Radeon HD 5770

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce 940A
    100%
  • Radeon HD 5770
    113%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce 940A

75 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 5770 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 HD 5770

Around 13% higher average synthetic performance.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 5770

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 5770

The Radeon HD 5770 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 940ARadeon HD 5770
GPU NameGM108 (N16S-GT-S)vsJuniper (Juniper XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs40 nm
Die Size0 mm²vs166 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs1,040 million
Shaders384vs800
Compute Units3vs10
Core clock1029 MHzvs850 MHz
ROPs8vs16
TMUs16vs40

Memory Configuration

GeForce 940ARadeon HD 5770
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1001 MHz
2002 MHz effective
vs1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 940ARadeon HD 5770
TDP33 wattsvs108 watts
Release Date13 Mar 2015vs13 Oct 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 940A
    8.23 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 5770
    13.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 940A
    16.46 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 5770
    34.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 940A
    16.02 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 5770
    76.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 940A
    790.30 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 5770
    1360.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce 940A
    2450
  • Radeon HD 5770
    2780

Points (higher is better)