
Radeon R9 290X and GeForce 940M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 290X vs GeForce 940M
Radeon R9 290X
7648
GeForce 940M
1156
Radeon R9 290X
GeForce 940M
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
Hawaii XT
N16S-GT-S/B
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
October 2013
March 2015
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
PCI Express 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
-
Boost clock speed
947 MHz
1176 MHz
Core clock speed
-
1072 MHz
Floating-point performance
5,632 gflops
903.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
1,870 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2816
384
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
176.0
28.22
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
320 GB/s
14.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
No outputs
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
+
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
+
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.5
Shader Model
6.3
5.1
Vulkan
+
1.1.126
AppAcceleration
+
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
GameWorks
-
+
GPU Boost
-
2.0
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
Optimus
-
+
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
+
-
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-