GeForce 940MX and Radeon RX 560 XT - video card comparison

GeForce 940MX

Radeon RX 560 XT

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

GPU code name

N16S-GTR-B/S

Ellesmere

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

March 2016

March 2019

Bus support

PCI Express 3.0

-

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

1242 MHz

1073 MHz

Core clock speed

1122 MHz

973 MHz

Floating-point performance

762.6 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

1,870 million

5,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

384

1792

Power consumption (TDP)

23 Watt

150 Watt

Texture fill rate

23.83

120.2

Memory type

DDR3, GDDR5

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

4000 MHz

6600 MHz

Memory bandwidth

40.1 GB/s

211.2 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

-

+

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 (12_0)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.2

2.0

OpenGL

4.5

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.4

Vulkan

1.1

1.2.131

GameWorks

+

-

GPU Boost

2.0

-

Optimus

+

-