NVIDIA GeForce 840M vs ATI Radeon X1600

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 840M and ATI Radeon X1600 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 840M

• Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 2 month(s) later
• Around 62% higher core clock speed: 1029 MHz vs 635 MHz
• 7.1x more texture fill rate: 17.98 GTexel / s vs 2.54 GTexel / s
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 80 nm
• 8x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 512 MB
• 2.5x more memory clock speed: 2002 MHz vs 800 MHz
• 22.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1096 vs 49
• 3.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3191 vs 1019
• 3.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3191 vs 1019

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X1600

• Around 22% lower typical power consumption: 27 Watt vs 33 Watt
• Around 38% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 209 vs 151

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 840M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X1600

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	1096 49
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	151 209
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3191 1019
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3191 1019

Compare specifications (specs)