GeForce 840M and Radeon RX 560X Mobile - video card comparison
GeForce 840M
Radeon RX 560X Mobile
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
N15S-GT
Polaris 11
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
March 2014
January 2017
Bus support
PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
MXM-B (3.0)
Boost clock speed
1124 MHz
1275 MHz
Core clock speed
1029 MHz
1172 MHz
Floating-point performance
863.2 gflops
2,611 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
-
3,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
33 Watt
60-80 Watt
Texture fill rate
17.98
81.60
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
2000 MHz
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
16.02 GB/s
92.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (12_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.2.131
FreeSync
-
+
GameWorks
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
Optimus
+
-