GeForce 940MX and Radeon 520 Mobile DDR3 - video card comparison
GeForce 940MX
Radeon 520 Mobile DDR3
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
N16S-GTR-B/S
Banks
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
March 2016
April 2017
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Boost clock speed
1242 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1122 MHz
1030 MHz
Floating-point performance
762.6 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,870 million
690 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
320
Power consumption (TDP)
23 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
23.83
20.60
Memory type
DDR3, GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
4000 MHz
2 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
40.1 GB/s
16 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
Portable Device Dependent
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (11_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.1 (1.2)
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.5 (5.1)
Vulkan
1.1
1.2.170
GameWorks
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
Optimus
+
-