NVIDIA GeForce 840M
VS
AMD Radeon R7 M460
NVIDIA GeForce 840M
VS
AMD Radeon R7 M460

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce 840M and AMD Radeon R7 M460. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

627
Place in performance rating
635
Maxwell
Architecture
GCN
GM108
Code name
Meso
Laptop
Type
Laptop
12 March 2014 (7 years ago)
Release date
21 February 2016 (5 years ago)
$743
Price now
$900
0.18
Value for money
0.53
N15S-GT
GPU code name
Meso
Laptop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce 840M and AMD Radeon R7 M460 based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

384
Pipelines
384
1029 MHz
Core clock speed
984 MHz
1124 MHz
Boost Clock
1125 MHz
no data
Transistor count
1,550 million
28 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
33 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
no data
17.98
Texture fill rate
27.00
863.2 gflops
Floating-point performance
864.0 gflops
384
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
1124 MHz
Boost clock speed
1125 MHz
no data
Number of transistors
1,550 million
33 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
no data

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce 840M and AMD Radeon R7 M460.

PCIe 3.0 x8
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
medium sized
Laptop size
no data
PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
Bus support
no data

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics NVIDIA GeForce 840M and AMD Radeon R7 M460 can be seen in this section.

DDR3
Memory type
DDR3
4 GB
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
64 Bit
Memory bus width
64 Bit
2000 MHz
Memory clock speed
2000 MHz
16.02 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
14.4 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce 840M and AMD Radeon R7 M460, the size and number of monitors.

No outputs
Display Connectors
No outputs

Technologies

The difference between NVIDIA GeForce 840M and AMD Radeon R7 M460 is the additional functionality.

2.0
GPU Boost
no data
+
CUDA
no data
+
GeForce Experience
no data
+
Optimus
no data
+
GameWorks
no data

API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce 840M and AMD Radeon R7 M460. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.5
OpenGL
4.6
1.1.126
Vulkan
+
5.1
Shader Model
no data
1.2
OpenCL
no data

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce 840M and AMD Radeon R7 M460 graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the NVIDIA GeForce 840M or AMD Radeon R7 M460 good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 840M
AMD Radeon R7 M460
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 840M
AMD Radeon R7 M460
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 840M
AMD Radeon R7 M460
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 840M
AMD Radeon R7 M460
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 840M
AMD Radeon R7 M460
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce 840M

0.12% faster in synthetic tests

Cheaper ($743 vs $900)

More maximum RAM amount (4 GB vs 2 GB)

More memory bandwidth (16.02 GB/s vs 14.4 GB/s)

Advantages of AMD Radeon R7 M460

There is no accountable advantage

So, NVIDIA GeForce 840M or AMD Radeon R7 M460?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA GeForce 840M .

NVIDIA GeForce 840M versus AMD Radeon R7 M460 performance benchmarks comparison

Overall benchmark performance

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score NVIDIA GeForce 840M
0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score AMD Radeon R7 M460