NVIDIA GeForce 940M vs AMD Radeon R5 340X

Compare NVIDIA GeForce 940M vs AMD Radeon R5 340X, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

325 points
40% slightly better overall score
232 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

8 FPS
2 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
6 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

6 FPS
3 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

6 FPS
1 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
5 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

5 FPS
4 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
1 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6193 points
15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
5341 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5469 points
10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
4929 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6264 points
21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
5148 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5609 points
18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
4748 points

Specifications

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit
Identical
64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

14.4 GB/s
16 GB/s
11% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W
65 W
15% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

17.57 Gigapixels/s
144% significantly higher pixel rate
7.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

35.14 Gigatexels/s
62% significantly higher texture rate
21.6 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512
33% slightly more shading units
384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

32
33% slightly more texture mapping units
24

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

16
100% significantly more render output processors
8

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

367th of 586
409th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 March
2015 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce 940M vs Radeon R5 340X comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce 940M beats the Radeon R5 340X in gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon R5 340X has a slightly lower TDP at 65 W when compared to the GeForce 940M at 75 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce 940M is faster than the Radeon R5 340X.

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