NVIDIA GeForce 840M vs ATI Radeon 9000

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 840M and ATI Radeon 9000 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.

NVIDIA GeForce 840M

ATI Radeon 9000

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 840M

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 year(s) 8 month(s) later
4.1x more core clock speed: 1029 MHz vs 250 MHz
18x more texture fill rate: 17.98 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 150 nm
64x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 64 MB
5x more memory clock speed: 2002 MHz vs 400 MHz
274x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1096 vs 4
Around 23% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 151 vs 123

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	12 March 2014 vs 1 July 2002
Core clock speed	1029 MHz vs 250 MHz
Texture fill rate	17.98 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	2002 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1096 vs 4
PassMark - G2D Mark	151 vs 123

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9000

Around 18% lower typical power consumption: 28 Watt vs 33 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	28 Watt vs 33 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 840M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 9000

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1096

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

151

123

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 840M	ATI Radeon 9000
PassMark - G3D Mark	1096	4
PassMark - G2D Mark	151	123
Geekbench - OpenCL	5745
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
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	503

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 840M	ATI Radeon 9000
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell	Rage 7
Code name	GM108	RV250
Launch date	12 March 2014	1 July 2002
Place in performance rating	1256	1254
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1124 MHz
Core clock speed	1029 MHz	250 MHz
Floating-point performance	863.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	384
Texture fill rate	17.98 GTexel / s	1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt	28 Watt
Transistor count		36 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	AGP 4x
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	8.1
OpenGL	4.5	1.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	16.02 GB / s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	2002 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	DDR
Shared memory	0
Technologies
CUDA
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GPU Boost
Optimus