Radeon RX 560 Mobile and GeForce 940M - video card comparison

Radeon RX 560 Mobile

GeForce 940M

Architecture

Polaris (2016−2019)

Maxwell (2014−2018)

GPU code name

Polaris 11

N16S-GT-S/B

Market segment

Laptop

Laptop

Release date

January 2017

March 2015

Bus support

-

PCI Express 3.0

Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

PCIe 3.0 x8

Boost clock speed

1275 MHz

1176 MHz

Core clock speed

1175 MHz

1072 MHz

Floating-point performance

2,462 gflops

903.2 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

3,000 million

1,870 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1024

384

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

75 Watt

Texture fill rate

58.97

28.22

Memory type

GDDR5

DDR3

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

6000 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

96 GB/s

14.4 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

No outputs

No outputs

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 (11_0)

CUDA

-

+

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

4.5

Shader Model

6.4

5.1

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.1.126

FreeSync

+

-

GameWorks

-

+

GPU Boost

-

2.0

Optimus

-

+