AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 vs NVIDIA GeForce 840M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 and NVIDIA GeForce 840M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, 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).

AMD Radeon RX Vega 8

NVIDIA GeForce 840M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 8

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 7% higher boost clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 1124 MHz
Around 33% higher pipelines: 512 vs 384
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
2.8x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 1429 vs 503

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	26 Oct 2017 vs 12 March 2014
Boost clock speed	1200 MHz vs 1124 MHz
Pipelines	512 vs 384
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1429 vs 503

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 8
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 840M

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

1429

503

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 8	NVIDIA GeForce 840M
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1429	503
PassMark - G3D Mark		1096
PassMark - G2D Mark		151
Geekbench - OpenCL		5771
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
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		2085
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		2736
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3191
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		2085
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		2736
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3191

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX Vega 8	NVIDIA GeForce 840M
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	Maxwell
Code name	Vega Raven Ridge	GM108
Launch date	26 Oct 2017	12 March 2014
Place in performance rating	949	1235
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1200 MHz	1124 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	512	384
Core clock speed		1029 MHz
Floating-point performance		863.2 gflops
Texture fill rate		17.98 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		33 Watt
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL		4.5
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support		PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x8
Laptop size		medium sized
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		4 GB
Memory bandwidth		16.02 GB / s
Memory bus width		64 Bit
Memory clock speed		2002 MHz
Memory type		DDR3
Shared memory		0
Technologies
CUDA
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GPU Boost
Optimus