GeForce 940M and Radeon R7 M270 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 940M vs Radeon R7 M270
GeForce 940M
1156
Radeon R7 M270
789
GeForce 940M
Radeon R7 M270
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
N16S-GT-S/B
Opal XT / Mars
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
March 2015
January 2014
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x8
Boost clock speed
1176 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1072 MHz
825 MHz
Floating-point performance
903.2 gflops
633.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,870 million
950 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
384
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
28.22
19.80
Memory type
DDR3
Not Listed
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
0 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
Not Listed
Memory clock speed
2000 MHz
-
Memory bandwidth
14.4 GB/s
28.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 (11_0)
DirectX® 11
CUDA
+
-
Mantle
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
Not Listed
OpenGL
4.5
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
1.1.126
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
DualGraphics
-
1
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
-
1
GameWorks
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
HD3D
-
+
Optimus
+
-
PowerTune
-
+
Switchable graphics
-
1
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
+