GeForce 940MX vs Radeon R7 M260
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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 R7 M260 |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon R7 M260
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce 940MX | | Radeon R7 M260 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GM108 (N16S-GT1R) | vs | Topaz (Topaz XT) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 0 mm² | vs | 77 mm² |
| Transistors | unknown | vs | unknown |
| Shaders | 384 | vs | 384 |
| Compute Units | 3 | vs | 6 |
| Core clock | 795 MHz | vs | 940 MHz |
| ROPs | 8 | vs | 8 |
| TMUs | 24 | vs | 24 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce 940MX | | Radeon R7 M260 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 64 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective | vs | 900 MHz
3600 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce 940MX | | Radeon R7 M260 | |
|---|
| TDP | 23 watts | vs | 0 watts |
| Release Date | 28 Jun 2016 | vs | 11 Jun 2014 |
GeForce 940MX
6.36 GP/s
Radeon R7 M260
7.52 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce 940MX
19.08 GT/s
Radeon R7 M260
22.56 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce 940MX
40.10 GB/s
Radeon R7 M260
57.60 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce 940MX
610.60 GFLOPs
Radeon R7 M260
721.90 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better