AMD Radeon RX 560X vs NVIDIA GeForce 840M

Compare AMD Radeon RX 560X 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 840M, 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

482 points
53% significantly better overall score
315 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

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

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

8 FPS
2 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
6 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

11 FPS
6 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
5 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

4 FPS
5 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1836 points
265% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
503 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

23094 points
288% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
5938 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

19900 points
282% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
5207 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

20500 points
236% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
6089 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20126 points
282% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
5261 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1175 MHz
14% slightly higher core clock speed
1029 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1275 MHz
13% slightly higher boost clock speed
1124 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit
100% significantly larger memory bus width
64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112 GB/s
599% significantly higher memory bandwidth
16.02 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W
33 W
127% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

20.4 Gigapixels/s
126% significantly higher pixel rate
8.99 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

81.6 Gigatexels/s
353% significantly higher texture rate
17.98 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024
166% significantly more shading units
384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

64
300% significantly more texture mapping units
16

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

332nd of 586
371st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500X Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 March
2014 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

Radeon RX 560X vs GeForce 840M comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 560X beats the GeForce 840M in gaming performance.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 560X over the GeForce 840M.

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