
GeForce 940MX and Radeon RX 590 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 940MX vs Radeon RX 590
GeForce 940MX
1561
Radeon RX 590
9695
GeForce 940MX
Radeon RX 590
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
N16S-GTR-B/S
Polaris 30
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2016
November 2018
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
1545 MHz
Core clock speed
1122 MHz
1469 MHz
Floating-point performance
762.6 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
12 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
222.5
Memory type
DDR3, GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
4000 MHz
8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
40.1 GB/s
256.0 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
FreeSync
-
+
GameWorks
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
Optimus
+
-