NVIDIA GeForce 940M vs AMD Radeon R6 M255DX

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 940M and AMD Radeon R6 M255DX 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 940M

• Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 2 month(s) later
• Around 37% higher core clock speed: 1072 MHz vs 780 MHz
• Around 38% higher boost clock speed: 1176 MHz vs 855 MHz
• Around 86% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1127 vs 605
• Around 34% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 155 vs 116
• 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 2132 vs 1055
• Around 59% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3065 vs 1927
• 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 2132 vs 1055
• Around 59% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3065 vs 1927

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R6 M255DX

• Around 50% higher pipelines: 576 vs 384
• 2.9x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 17123 vs 5958
• Around 6% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3563 vs 3357
• Around 6% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3563 vs 3357

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 940M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R6 M255DX

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	1127 605
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	155 116
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	5958 17123
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2132 1055
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3065 1927
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3357 3563
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2132 1055
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3065 1927
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3357 3563

Compare specifications (specs)