GeForce 940M and Radeon Picasso - video card comparison

GeForce 940M

Radeon Picasso

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)

GPU code name

N16S-GT-S/B

Picasso

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

March 2015

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Bus support

PCI Express 3.0

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Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

IGP

Supplementary power connectors

-

None

Boost clock speed

1176 MHz

1301 MHz

Core clock speed

1072 MHz

300 MHz

Floating-point performance

903.2 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

1,870 million

4,940 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

384

640

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

10 Watt

Texture fill rate

28.22

52.04

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

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Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

No outputs

No outputs

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.2

-

OpenGL

4.5

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

-

Vulkan

1.1.126

-

GameWorks

+

-

GPU Boost

2.0

-

Optimus

+

-