Radeon HD 7850M vs GeForce 940M

Radeon HD 7850M
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 24 Apr 2012
Radeon HD 7850M
GeForce 940M
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 13 Mar 2015
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 7850M

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7850M

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 7850MGeForce 940M
GPU NameHeathrow (Heathrow PRO)vsGM108 (N16S-GT-S)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size123 mm²vs0 mm²
Transistors1,500 millionvsunknown
Shaders640vs384
Compute Units10vs3
Core clock675 MHzvs1072 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs40vs24

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 7850MGeForce 940M
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 7850MGeForce 940M
TDP40 wattsvs33 watts
Release Date24 Apr 2012vs13 Mar 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 7850M
    10.80 GP/s
  • GeForce 940M
    8.58 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 7850M
    27.00 GT/s
  • GeForce 940M
    25.73 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 7850M
    64.00 GB/s
  • GeForce 940M
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 7850M
    864.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 940M
    823.30 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

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