AMD Radeon R8 M365DX vs NVIDIA GeForce 840M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R8 M365DX and NVIDIA GeForce 840M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R8 M365DX

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • 2x more pipelines: 768 vs 384
  • Around 32% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 197 vs 149
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 3 June 2015 vs 12 March 2014
Boost clock speed 1125 MHz vs 1124 MHz
Pipelines 768 vs 384
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 197 vs 149

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 840M

  • Around 14% higher core clock speed: 1029 MHz vs 900 MHz
  • Around 70% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 2085 vs 1229
  • Around 70% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 2085 vs 1229
  • 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 2736 vs 1370
  • 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 2736 vs 1370
  • Around 58% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3191 vs 2017
  • Around 58% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3191 vs 2017
  • Around 81% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1088 vs 602
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1029 MHz vs 900 MHz
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 5624 vs 5601
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2085 vs 1229
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2085 vs 1229
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2736 vs 1370
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2736 vs 1370
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3191 vs 2017
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3191 vs 2017
PassMark - G3D Mark 1088 vs 602

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R8 M365DX
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 840M

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
5601
5624
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1229
2085
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1229
2085
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1370
2736
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1370
2736
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2017
3191
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2017
3191
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
197
149
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
602
1088
Name AMD Radeon R8 M365DX NVIDIA GeForce 840M
Geekbench - OpenCL 5601 5624
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1229 2085
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1229 2085
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1370 2736
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1370 2736
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2017 3191
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2017 3191
PassMark - G2D Mark 197 149
PassMark - G3D Mark 602 1088
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 22.848
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 162.594
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.237
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 21.15
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 95.545
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 503

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon R8 M365DX NVIDIA GeForce 840M

Essentials

Architecture GCN 3.0 Maxwell
Code name Meso GM108
Launch date 3 June 2015 12 March 2014
Place in performance rating 1266 1268
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1125 MHz 1124 MHz
Core clock speed 900 MHz 1029 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 768 384
Transistor count 3,100 million
Floating-point performance 863.2 gflops
Texture fill rate 17.98 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 33 Watt

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface IGP PCIe 3.0 x8
Laptop size medium sized medium sized
Bus support PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_0) 12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.5 4.5
Vulkan

Memory

Memory bus width 128 + 64 Bit 64 Bit
Memory type DDR3 DDR3
Shared memory 0 0
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 16.02 GB / s
Memory clock speed 2002 MHz

Technologies

CUDA
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GPU Boost
Optimus