Radeon HD 8970M and GeForce 940M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 8970M vs GeForce 940M
Radeon HD 8970M
3992
GeForce 940M
1156
Radeon HD 8970M
GeForce 940M
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
Neptune
N16S-GT-S/B
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
May 2013
March 2015
Bus support
-
PCI Express 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
1176 MHz
Core clock speed
850 MHz
1072 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,304 gflops
903.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
1,870 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
384
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
72.00
28.22
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
14.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.5
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.1.126
GameWorks
-
+
GPU Boost
-
2.0
Optimus
-
+