GeForce 940MX DDR3 vs Radeon R7 250

GeForce 940MX DDR3
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 1 Jan 2016
GeForce 940MX DDR3
Radeon R7 250
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Oct 2013
Radeon R7 250
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Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce 940MX DDR3
    100%
  • Radeon R7 250
    111%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce 940MX DDR3

42 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R7 250 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R7 250

HWBench recommends Radeon R7 250

The Radeon R7 250 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 940MX DDR3Radeon R7 250
GPU NameGM108 (N16S-GTR-S)vsOland (Oland XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size0 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs1,040 million
Shaders384vs384
Compute Units3vs6
Core clock1122 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs8vs8
TMUs24vs24

Memory Configuration

GeForce 940MX DDR3Radeon R7 250
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1001 MHz
2002 MHz effective
vs1150 MHz
4600 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 940MX DDR3Radeon R7 250
TDP23 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date1 Jan 2016vs8 Oct 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 940MX DDR3
    8.98 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 250
    8.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 940MX DDR3
    26.93 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 250
    24.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 940MX DDR3
    16.02 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 250
    73.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 940MX DDR3
    861.70 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 250
    768.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce 940MX DDR3
    2450
  • Radeon R7 250
    2740

Points (higher is better)