Radeon HD 8870M vs GeForce 940M
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8870M |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 8870M
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 8870M | | GeForce 940M | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Venus (Venus XT) | 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 | 725 MHz | vs | 1072 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 8 |
| TMUs | 40 | vs | 24 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 8870M | | GeForce 940M | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | DDR3 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 64 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective | vs | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 8870M | | GeForce 940M | |
|---|
| TDP | 0 watts | vs | 33 watts |
| Release Date | 1 Apr 2013 | vs | 13 Mar 2015 |
Radeon HD 8870M
12.40 GP/s
GeForce 940M
8.58 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 8870M
31.00 GT/s
GeForce 940M
25.73 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 8870M
72.00 GB/s
GeForce 940M
14.40 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 8870M
992.00 GFLOPs
GeForce 940M
823.30 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better