GeForce 940M vs Radeon R7 250
Summary
GeForce 940M
100%
Radeon R7 250
111%
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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 R7 250 |
| Around 11% 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| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon R7 250
The Radeon R7 250 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| GeForce 940M | | Radeon R7 250 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GM107 (N16S-GT1-KB-B) | vs | Oland (Oland XT) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 148 mm² | vs | 90 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,870 million | vs | 1,040 million |
| Shaders | 512 | vs | 384 |
| Compute Units | 4 | vs | 6 |
| Core clock | 1029 MHz | vs | 1000 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 8 |
| TMUs | 32 | vs | 24 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce 940M | | Radeon R7 250 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | DDR3 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective | vs | 1150 MHz
4600 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce 940M | | Radeon R7 250 | |
|---|
| TDP | 75 watts | vs | 65 watts |
| Release Date | 13 Mar 2015 | vs | 8 Oct 2013 |
GeForce 940M
16.46 GP/s
Radeon R7 250
8.00 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce 940M
32.90 GT/s
Radeon R7 250
24.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce 940M
28.80 GB/s
Radeon R7 250
73.60 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce 940M
1053.70 GFLOPs
Radeon R7 250
768.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
GeForce 940M
2450
Radeon R7 250
2740
Points (higher is better)