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    GeForce 940M vs Radeon HD 8870M

    GeForce 940M
    Memory: 2048Mb DDR3MOBILE
    Release date: 13 Mar 2015
    GeForce 940M
    Radeon HD 8870M
    Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
    Release date: 1 Apr 2013
    Radeon HD 8870M
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    Summary

    Synthetic performance index

    • GeForce 940M
      100%
    • Radeon HD 8870M
      113%

    Relative performance

    Reasons to consider GeForce 940M

    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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 8870M

    Around 13% higher average synthetic performance.
    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    Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
    Radeon HD 8870M

    HWBench recommends Radeon HD 8870M

    The Radeon HD 8870M is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).

    Specifications

    Core Configuration

    GeForce 940MRadeon HD 8870M
    GPU NameGM107 (N16S-GT1-KB-B)vsVenus (Venus XT)
    Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
    Die Size148 mm²vs123 mm²
    Transistors1,870 millionvs1,500 million
    Shaders512vs640
    Compute Units4vs10
    Core clock1029 MHzvs725 MHz
    ROPs16vs16
    TMUs32vs40

    Memory Configuration

    GeForce 940MRadeon HD 8870M
    Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
    Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
    Memory Speed900 MHz
    1800 MHz effective    		vs1125 MHz
    4500 MHz effective
    Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

    Additional details

    GeForce 940MRadeon HD 8870M
    TDP75 wattsvs0 watts
    Release Date13 Mar 2015vs1 Apr 2013

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • GeForce 940M
      16.46 GP/s
    • Radeon HD 8870M
      12.40 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • GeForce 940M
      32.90 GT/s
    • Radeon HD 8870M
      31.00 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

    • GeForce 940M
      28.80 GB/s
    • Radeon HD 8870M
      72.00 GB/s

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • GeForce 940M
      1053.70 GFLOPs
    • Radeon HD 8870M
      992.00 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

    Synthetic benchmarks

    3DMark 11

    • GeForce 940M
      2450
    • Radeon HD 8870M
      2780

    Points (higher is better)

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