AMD Radeon R7 M520 vs NVIDIA GeForce 940MX

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R7 M520 and NVIDIA GeForce 940MX videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory, API support, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon R7 M520

NVIDIA GeForce 940MX

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 M520

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 month(s) later
Around 8% higher core clock speed: 1030 MHz vs 954 MHz
2.9x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 17889 vs 6188

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	18 April 2017 vs 28 June 2016
Core clock speed	1030 MHz vs 954 MHz
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	17889 vs 6188

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 940MX

Around 16% higher texture fill rate: 23.83 GTexel / s vs 20.6 GTexel / s
Around 20% higher pipelines: 384 vs 320
Around 16% better floating-point performance: 762.6 gflops vs 659.2 gflops
2.2x lower typical power consumption: 23 Watt vs 50 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
2.5x more memory clock speed: 5012 MHz vs 2000 MHz

Texture fill rate	23.83 GTexel / s vs 20.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines	384 vs 320
Floating-point performance	762.6 gflops vs 659.2 gflops
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt vs 50 Watt
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	5012 MHz vs 2000 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R7 M520
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 940MX

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

17889

6188

Name	AMD Radeon R7 M520	NVIDIA GeForce 940MX
Geekbench - OpenCL	17889	6188
PassMark - G3D Mark		1514
PassMark - G2D Mark		171
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		28.91
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		312.94
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		1.83
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		27.833
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		103.937
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		2486
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3587
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3357
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		2486
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3587
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3357
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		585

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R7 M520	NVIDIA GeForce 940MX
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Maxwell
Code name	Oland	GM108
Launch date	18 April 2017	28 June 2016
Place in performance rating	1188	1100
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1030 MHz	954 MHz
Floating-point performance	659.2 gflops	762.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	320	384
Texture fill rate	20.6 GTexel / s	23.83 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	23 Watt
Transistor count	1,040 million	1,870 million
Boost clock speed		993 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Bus support		PCI Express 3.0
Laptop size		medium sized
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	16 GB / s	40.1 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz	5012 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	DDR3, GDDR5
Shared memory		0
API support
DirectX		12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL		4.5
Technologies
CUDA
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GPU Boost
Optimus