Radeon HD 5850 and GeForce 940M - video card comparison

Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 5850 vs GeForce 940M

Radeon HD 5850

2048

GeForce 940M

1156

Radeon HD 5850

GeForce 940M

Architecture

Terascale 2 (2009−2015)

Maxwell (2014−2018)

GPU code name

Cypress

N16S-GT-S/B

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

September 2009

March 2015

Bus support

PCI Express 3.0

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

1176 MHz

Core clock speed

725 MHz

1072 MHz

Floating-point performance

2,088.0 gflops

903.2 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

2,154 million

1,870 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1440

384

Power consumption (TDP)

151 Watt

75 Watt

Texture fill rate

52.20

28.22

Memory type

GDDR5

DDR3

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

2000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

128.0 GB/s

14.4 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

No outputs

HDMI

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

12 (11_0)

CUDA

OpenCL

1.2

OpenGL

4.4

4.5

Shader Model

5.0

5.1

Vulkan

N/A

1.1.126

GameWorks

GPU Boost

2.0

Optimus