Radeon HD 5870 and GeForce 940MX - video card comparison

Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 5870 vs GeForce 940MX

Radeon HD 5870

2282

GeForce 940MX

1561

Radeon HD 5870

GeForce 940MX

Architecture

TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)

Maxwell (2014−2018)

GPU code name

Cypress

N16S-GTR-B/S

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

September 2009

March 2016

Bus support

PCI Express 3.0

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1242 MHz

Core clock speed

850 MHz

1122 MHz

Floating-point performance

2,720.0 gflops

762.6 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

2,154 million

1,870 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1600

384

Power consumption (TDP)

188 Watt

23 Watt

Texture fill rate

68.00

23.83

Memory type

GDDR5

DDR3, GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

4800 MHz

4000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

153.6 GB/s

40.1 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

GameWorks

GPU Boost

2.0

Optimus