GeForce 940MX vs Radeon R5 M230

GeForce 940MX
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 28 Jun 2016
GeForce 940MX
Radeon R5 M230
Memory: 4096Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 7 Jan 2014
Radeon R5 M230

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 940MX

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R5 M230

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 940MXRadeon R5 M230
GPU NameGM108 (N16S-GT1R)vsJet (Jet PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size0 mm²vs77 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs1,040 million
Shaders384vs320
Compute Units3vs5
Core clock795 MHzvs780 MHz
ROPs8vs8
TMUs24vs20

Memory Configuration

GeForce 940MXRadeon R5 M230
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
2000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 940MXRadeon R5 M230
TDP23 wattsvs0 watts
Release Date28 Jun 2016vs7 Jan 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 940MX
    6.36 GP/s
  • Radeon R5 M230
    6.84 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 940MX
    19.08 GT/s
  • Radeon R5 M230
    17.10 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 940MX
    40.10 GB/s
  • Radeon R5 M230
    16.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 940MX
    610.60 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R5 M230
    547.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

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