GeForce 940MX vs Radeon R7 250

GeForce 940MX
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 28 Jun 2016
GeForce 940MX
Radeon R7 250
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Oct 2013
Radeon R7 250

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 940MX

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 940MXRadeon R7 250
GPU NameGM108 (N16S-GT1R)vsOland (Oland XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size0 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs1,040 million
Shaders384vs384
Compute Units3vs6
Core clock795 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs8vs8
TMUs24vs24

Memory Configuration

GeForce 940MXRadeon R7 250
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
vs1150 MHz
4600 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 940MXRadeon R7 250
TDP23 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date28 Jun 2016vs8 Oct 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 940MX
    6.36 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 250
    8.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 940MX
    19.08 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 250
    24.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 940MX
    40.10 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 250
    73.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 940MX
    610.60 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 250
    768.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better