AMD Radeon RX 455 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 940MX

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 455 OEM and NVIDIA GeForce 940MX 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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 RX 455 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce 940MX

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 455 OEM

Around 10% higher core clock speed: 1050 MHz vs 954 MHz
2.1x more texture fill rate: 50.4 GTexel / s vs 23.83 GTexel / s
2x more pipelines: 768 vs 384
2.1x better floating-point performance: 1,613 gflops vs 762.6 gflops
Around 30% higher memory clock speed: 6500 MHz vs 5012 MHz

Core clock speed	1050 MHz vs 954 MHz
Texture fill rate	50.4 GTexel / s vs 23.83 GTexel / s
Pipelines	768 vs 384
Floating-point performance	1,613 gflops vs 762.6 gflops
Memory clock speed	6500 MHz vs 5012 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 940MX

4.3x lower typical power consumption: 23 Watt vs 100 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt vs 100 Watt
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 455 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 940MX

Name	AMD Radeon RX 455 OEM	NVIDIA GeForce 940MX
PassMark - G3D Mark		1518
PassMark - G2D Mark		172
Geekbench - OpenCL		6336
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 RX 455 OEM	NVIDIA GeForce 940MX
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 2.0	Maxwell
Code name	Tobago	GM108
Launch date	30 June 2016	28 June 2016
Place in performance rating	not rated	1104
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1050 MHz	954 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,613 gflops	762.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	768	384
Texture fill rate	50.4 GTexel / s	23.83 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt	23 Watt
Transistor count	2,080 million	1,870 million
Boost clock speed		993 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x8
Length	165 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	None
Bus support		PCI Express 3.0
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	104.0 GB / s	40.1 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	6500 MHz	5012 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3, GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
CUDA
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GPU Boost
Optimus