AMD Radeon R7 (Carrizo)
VS
NVIDIA GeForce 840M
AMD Radeon R7 (Carrizo)
VS
NVIDIA GeForce 840M

General info

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

570
Place in performance rating
627
GCN 1.2/2.0
Architecture
Maxwell
Carrizo
Code name
GM108
Laptop
Type
Laptop
4 June 2015 (6 years ago)
Release date
12 March 2014 (7 years ago)
$999
Price now
$743
0.48
Value for money
0.18
Carrizo
GPU code name
N15S-GT
Laptop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

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

512
Pipelines
384
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Core clock speed
1029 MHz
800 MHz
Boost Clock
1124 MHz
2410 Million
Transistor count
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28 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
12-35 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
33 Watt
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Texture fill rate
17.98
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Floating-point performance
863.2 gflops
512
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
800 MHz
Boost clock speed
1124 MHz
2410 Million
Number of transistors
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12-35 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
33 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

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

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Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
medium sized
Laptop size
medium sized
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Bus support
PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0

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 AMD Radeon R7 (Carrizo) and NVIDIA GeForce 840M can be seen in this section.

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Memory type
DDR3
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Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
64/128 Bit
Memory bus width
64 Bit
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Memory clock speed
2000 MHz
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Memory bandwidth
16.02 GB/s
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Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

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

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Display Connectors
No outputs

Technologies

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

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GPU Boost
2.0
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CUDA
+
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GeForce Experience
+
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Optimus
+
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GameWorks
+

API support

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

DirectX 12 (FL 12_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
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OpenGL
4.5
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Vulkan
1.1.126
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Shader Model
5.1
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OpenCL
1.2

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Radeon R7 (Carrizo) and NVIDIA GeForce 840M 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 AMD Radeon R7 (Carrizo) or NVIDIA GeForce 840M good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Radeon R7 (Carrizo)
NVIDIA GeForce 840M
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Radeon R7 (Carrizo)
NVIDIA GeForce 840M
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Radeon R7 (Carrizo)
NVIDIA GeForce 840M
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Radeon R7 (Carrizo)
NVIDIA GeForce 840M
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Radeon R7 (Carrizo)
NVIDIA GeForce 840M
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 AMD Radeon R7 (Carrizo)

More pipelines (512 vs 384)

Less power consumption (12-35 Watt vs 33 Watt)

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce 840M

0.23% faster in synthetic tests

Cheaper ($743 vs $999)

So, AMD Radeon R7 (Carrizo) or NVIDIA GeForce 840M?

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

AMD Radeon R7 (Carrizo) versus NVIDIA GeForce 840M performance benchmarks comparison

Overall benchmark performance

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score AMD Radeon R7 (Carrizo)
0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score NVIDIA GeForce 840M