Radeon HD 7850M vs GeForce 940M
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7850M |
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce 940M |
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7850M
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 7850M | | GeForce 940M | |
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GPU Name | Heathrow (Heathrow PRO) | vs | GM108 (N16S-GT-S) |
Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
Die Size | 123 mm² | vs | 0 mm² |
Transistors | 1,500 million | vs | unknown |
Shaders | 640 | vs | 384 |
Compute Units | 10 | vs | 3 |
Core clock | 675 MHz | vs | 1072 MHz |
ROPs | 16 | vs | 8 |
TMUs | 40 | vs | 24 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 7850M | | GeForce 940M | |
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Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | DDR3 |
Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 64 bit |
Memory Speed | 1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective | vs | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective |
Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 7850M | | GeForce 940M | |
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TDP | 40 watts | vs | 33 watts |
Release Date | 24 Apr 2012 | vs | 13 Mar 2015 |
Radeon HD 7850M
10.80 GP/s
GeForce 940M
8.58 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 7850M
27.00 GT/s
GeForce 940M
25.73 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 7850M
64.00 GB/s
GeForce 940M
14.40 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 7850M
864.00 GFLOPs
GeForce 940M
823.30 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better