GeForce 940M and Radeon RX 6500 XT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 940M vs Radeon RX 6500 XT
GeForce 940M
1156
Radeon RX 6500 XT
9825
GeForce 940M
Radeon RX 6500 XT
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)
GPU code name
N16S-GT-S/B
Navi 24
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2015
January 2022
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 4.0 x4
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1176 MHz
2815 MHz
Core clock speed
1072 MHz
2610 MHz
Floating-point performance
903.2 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
1,870 million
5,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
107 Watt
Texture fill rate
28.22
180.2
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
2000 MHz
18000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
14.4 GB/s
143.9 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.6
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.3
GameWorks
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
Optimus
+
-