AMD Radeon 530 vs NVIDIA GeForce 940M

Compare AMD Radeon 530 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 940M, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

GPU Comparison

Quickly search and compare graphics cards

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

204 points
325 points
59% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

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

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS
6 FPS
3 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

4 FPS
6 FPS
2 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS
5 FPS
4 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

Free GPU Benchmark

Want to compare your graphics card against the Radeon 530 and the GeForce 940M? Download our free and quick PC Performance Test.

Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6960 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
6193 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

8039 points
46% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
5469 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6343 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
6264 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

7006 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
5609 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1024 MHz
1098 MHz
7% slightly higher boost clock speed

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

48 GB/s
233% significantly higher memory bandwidth
14.4 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

8.2 Gigapixels/s
17.57 Gigapixels/s
114% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

24.58 Gigatexels/s
35.14 Gigatexels/s
42% significantly higher texture rate

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

8
16
100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

427th of 586
367th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon 500 Series
-

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April
2015 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

-
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

-
4.6

Radeon 530 vs GeForce 940M specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce 940M GPU is faster than the Radeon 530 in gaming.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce 940M over the Radeon 530.

Comments

No comments yet! Be the first to leave a comment using the form below.

Keep comments on topic and be polite. Comments are subject to moderation before they are published.

Popular GPU Comparisons