Radeon R5 M430 vs GeForce 940M
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon R5 M430 |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 GeForce 940M
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon R5 M430 | | GeForce 940M | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Jet (Jet PRO) | vs | GM108 (N16S-GT-S) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 77 mm² | vs | 0 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,040 million | vs | unknown |
| Shaders | 320 | vs | 384 |
| Compute Units | 5 | vs | 3 |
| Core clock | 780 MHz | vs | 1072 MHz |
| ROPs | 8 | vs | 8 |
| TMUs | 20 | vs | 24 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon R5 M430 | | GeForce 940M | |
|---|
| Memory Type | DDR3 | vs | DDR3 |
| Bus Width | 64 bit | vs | 64 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1000 MHz
2000 MHz effective | vs | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 4096 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon R5 M430 | | GeForce 940M | |
|---|
| TDP | 0 watts | vs | 33 watts |
| Release Date | 15 May 2016 | vs | 13 Mar 2015 |
Radeon R5 M430
6.84 GP/s
GeForce 940M
8.58 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon R5 M430
17.10 GT/s
GeForce 940M
25.73 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon R5 M430
16.00 GB/s
GeForce 940M
14.40 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon R5 M430
547.20 GFLOPs
GeForce 940M
823.30 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better