GeForce 940MX and Radeon RX 590 GME - video card comparison

GeForce 940MX

Radeon RX 590 GME

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

GPU code name

N16S-GTR-B/S

Polaris 20

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

March 2016

March 2020

Bus support

PCI Express 3.0

-

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1242 MHz

1420 MHz

Core clock speed

1122 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

2304

Power consumption (TDP)

23 Watt

175 Watt

Texture fill rate

23.83

204.5

Memory type

DDR3, GDDR5

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

4000 MHz

8 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

40.1 GB/s

256.0 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

-

+

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 (12_0)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.2

2.1

OpenGL

4.5

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.7

Vulkan

1.1

1.3

GameWorks

+

-

GPU Boost

2.0

-

Optimus

+

-