GeForce 940M and Radeon Graphics 512SP - video card comparison

GeForce 940M

Radeon Graphics 512SP

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

GCN 5.1 (2018−2021)

GPU code name

N16S-GT-S/B

Renoir

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

March 2015

March 2020

Bus support

PCI Express 3.0

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

IGP

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

1176 MHz

2100 MHz

Core clock speed

1072 MHz

Floating-point performance

903.2 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

1,870 million

9,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

384

512

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

15 Watt

Texture fill rate

28.22

67.20

Memory type

DDR3

System Shared

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

System Shared

Memory bus width

64 Bit

System Shared

Memory clock speed

2000 MHz

System Shared

Memory bandwidth

14.4 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

Motherboard Dependent

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

OpenCL

1.2

2.1

OpenGL

4.5

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.7 (6.4)

Vulkan

1.1.126

1.3

GameWorks

GPU Boost

2.0

Optimus