GeForce 940MX vs Radeon RX 470

GeForce 940MX
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 28 Jun 2016
GeForce 940MX
Radeon RX 470
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Jun 2016
Radeon RX 470

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 940MX

97 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon RX 470 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 RX 470

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX 470

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 470

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 940MXRadeon RX 470
GPU NameGM108 (N16S-GT1R)vsEllesmere (Ellesmere PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs14 nm
Die Size0 mm²vs232 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs5,700 million
Shaders384vs2048
Compute Units3vs32
Core clock795 MHzvs926 MHz
ROPs8vs32
TMUs24vs128

Memory Configuration

GeForce 940MXRadeon RX 470
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
vs1650 MHz
6600 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 940MXRadeon RX 470
TDP23 wattsvs120 watts
Release Date28 Jun 2016vs29 Jun 2016

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 940MX
    6.36 GP/s
  • Radeon RX 470
    38.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 940MX
    19.08 GT/s
  • Radeon RX 470
    154.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 940MX
    40.10 GB/s
  • Radeon RX 470
    211.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 940MX
    610.60 GFLOPs
  • Radeon RX 470
    4940.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better