GeForce 940M and Radeon 530X - video card comparison
GeForce 940M
Radeon 530X
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
N16S-GT-S/B
Meso
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2015
April 2017
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
1176 MHz
1021 MHz
Core clock speed
1072 MHz
730 MHz
Floating-point performance
903.2 gflops
784.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,870 million
1,040 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
384
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
28.22
24.50
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
2000 MHz
4000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
14.4 GB/s
32 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12.0
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.5
4.5
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
1.1.126
-
GameWorks
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
Optimus
+
-