NVIDIA GeForce 940MX vs AMD Radeon R7 M365X

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 940MX and AMD Radeon R7 M365X 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 940MX

AMD Radeon R7 M365X

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 940MX

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 6% higher core clock speed: 954 MHz vs 900 MHz
Around 20% higher boost clock speed: 993 MHz vs 825 MHz
Around 3% higher texture fill rate: 23.83 GTexel / s vs 23.04 GTexel / s
Around 3% better floating-point performance: 762.6 gflops vs 737.3 gflops
5x more memory clock speed: 5012 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Around 96% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1514 vs 772

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	28 June 2016 vs 5 May 2015
Core clock speed	954 MHz vs 900 MHz
Boost clock speed	993 MHz vs 825 MHz
Texture fill rate	23.83 GTexel / s vs 23.04 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance	762.6 gflops vs 737.3 gflops
Memory clock speed	5012 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1514 vs 772

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 M365X

Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 174 vs 171
Around 1% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 6237 vs 6188

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	174 vs 171
Geekbench - OpenCL	6237 vs 6188

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 940MX
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R7 M365X

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1514

772

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

171

174

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

6188

6237

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 940MX	AMD Radeon R7 M365X
PassMark - G3D Mark	1514	772
PassMark - G2D Mark	171	174
Geekbench - OpenCL	6188	6237
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	28.91
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	312.94
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.83
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	27.833
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	103.937
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2486
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3587
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3357
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2486
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3587
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3357
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	585

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 940MX	AMD Radeon R7 M365X
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell	GCN 1.0
Code name	GM108	Litho
Launch date	28 June 2016	5 May 2015
Place in performance rating	1100	1103
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon R7 300 Series
Technical info
Boost clock speed	993 MHz	825 MHz
Core clock speed	954 MHz	900 MHz
Floating-point performance	762.6 gflops	737.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	384	384
Texture fill rate	23.83 GTexel / s	23.04 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt
Transistor count	1,870 million	1,040 million
Compute units		6
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Eyefinity
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 3.0	PCIe 3.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x8
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	12
OpenGL	4.5	4.4
Mantle
OpenCL		Not Listed
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	40.1 GB / s	64 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 bit
Memory clock speed	5012 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory type	DDR3, GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory	0
Technologies
CUDA
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GPU Boost
Optimus
AMD Eyefinity
DualGraphics
FreeSync
HD3D
PowerTune
Switchable graphics
ZeroCore