NVIDIA GeForce 940M vs ATI Radeon 9200

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 940M and ATI Radeon 9200 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 940M

ATI Radeon 9200

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 940M

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 year(s) 10 month(s) later
4.3x more core clock speed: 1072 MHz vs 250 MHz
28.2x more texture fill rate: 28.22 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 150 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 128 MB
4.5x more memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 400 MHz
281.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1127 vs 4
Around 15% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 155 vs 135

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	13 March 2015 vs 1 May 2003
Core clock speed	1072 MHz vs 250 MHz
Texture fill rate	28.22 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1127 vs 4
PassMark - G2D Mark	155 vs 135

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9200

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 940M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 9200

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1127

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

155

135

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 940M	ATI Radeon 9200
PassMark - G3D Mark	1127	4
PassMark - G2D Mark	155	135
Geekbench - OpenCL	5958
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 - Manhattan (Frames)	3065
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3357
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2132
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3065
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3357
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	506

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 940M	ATI Radeon 9200
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell	Rage 7
Code name	GM108	RV280
Launch date	13 March 2015	1 May 2003
Place in performance rating	1200	1197
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1176 MHz
Core clock speed	1072 MHz	250 MHz
Floating-point performance	903.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	384
Texture fill rate	28.22 GTexel / s	1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt	28 Watt
Transistor count	1,870 million	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 3.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	AGP 8x
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	2 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	DDR
Shared memory	0
Technologies
CUDA
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GPU Boost
Optimus