AMD Radeon Vega 3 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce 940M
Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Vega 3 Mobile and NVIDIA GeForce 940M 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, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 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 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps).
Differences
Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Vega 3 Mobile
- Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 10 month(s) later
- A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
- 2.2x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 33 Watt
- 2.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 322 vs 154
| Specifications (specs) | |
| Launch date | 1 February 2018 vs 13 March 2015 |
| Manufacturing process technology | 14 nm vs 28 nm |
| Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 15 Watt vs 33 Watt |
| Benchmarks | |
| PassMark - G2D Mark | 322 vs 154 |
Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 940M
- 3.6x more core clock speed: 1072 MHz vs 300 MHz
- Around 16% higher boost clock speed: 1176 MHz vs 1011 MHz
- Around 9% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1127 vs 1035
- Around 34% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 5982 vs 4468
- Around 25% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 506 vs 404
- Around 66% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3065 vs 1850
- Around 66% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3065 vs 1850
- Around 6% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3357 vs 3180
- Around 6% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3357 vs 3180
| Specifications (specs) | |
| Core clock speed | 1072 MHz vs 300 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | 1176 MHz vs 1011 MHz |
| Benchmarks | |
| PassMark - G3D Mark | 1127 vs 1035 |
| Geekbench - OpenCL | 5982 vs 4468 |
| 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score | 506 vs 404 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) | 3065 vs 1850 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) | 3065 vs 1850 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) | 3357 vs 3180 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) | 3357 vs 3180 |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: AMD Radeon Vega 3 Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 940M
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| Name | AMD Radeon Vega 3 Mobile | NVIDIA GeForce 940M |
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| PassMark - G3D Mark | 1035 | 1127 |
| PassMark - G2D Mark | 322 | 154 |
| Geekbench - OpenCL | 4468 | 5982 |
| 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score | 404 | 506 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) | 1850 | 3065 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) | 1850 | 3065 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) | 3180 | 3357 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) | 3180 | 3357 |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) | 25.98 | |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) | 168.449 | |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) | 1.307 | |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) | 21.837 | |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) | 101.399 | |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) | 2132 | |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) | 2132 |
Compare specifications (specs)
| AMD Radeon Vega 3 Mobile | NVIDIA GeForce 940M | |
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| Architecture | GCN 5.0 | Maxwell |
| Code name | Raven | GM108 |
| Launch date | 1 February 2018 | 13 March 2015 |
| Place in performance rating | 991 | 1184 |
| Type | Desktop | Laptop |
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| Boost clock speed | 1011 MHz | 1176 MHz |
| Core clock speed | 300 MHz | 1072 MHz |
| Manufacturing process technology | 14 nm | 28 nm |
| Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 15 Watt | 33 Watt |
| Transistor count | 4,940 million | 1,870 million |
| Floating-point performance | 903.2 gflops | |
| Pipelines | 384 | |
| Texture fill rate | 28.22 GTexel / s | |
Video outputs and ports |
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| Display Connectors | No outputs | No outputs |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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| Interface | IGP | PCIe 3.0 x8 |
| Bus support | PCI Express 3.0 | |
| Laptop size | medium sized | |
API support |
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| DirectX | 12.0 (12_1) | 12.0 (11_0) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.5 |
Memory |
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| Maximum RAM amount | 2 GB | |
| Memory bandwidth | 14.4 GB / s | |
| Memory bus width | 64 Bit | |
| Memory clock speed | 1800 MHz | |
| Memory type | DDR3 | |
| Shared memory | 0 | |
Technologies |
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