GeForce 940M and Radeon R5 230 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 940M vs Radeon R5 230
GeForce 940M
1156
Radeon R5 230
228
GeForce 940M
Radeon R5 230
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
N16S-GT-S/B
Caicos
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2015
April 2014
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
PCIe 1.0 x4
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
N/A
Boost clock speed
1176 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1072 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
903.2 gflops
200.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,870 million
370 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
160
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
19 Watt
Texture fill rate
28.22
5.000
Memory type
DDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
2000 MHz
-
Memory bandwidth
14.4 GB/s
10.67 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Eyefinity
-
1
HDMI
-
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
DirectX® 11
CUDA
+
-
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
1.1.126
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
-
1
DDMA audio
-
-
Enduro
-
-
GameWorks
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
HD3D
-
-
Optimus
+
-
PowerPlay
-
+
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-