NVIDIA GeForce 940M
VS
AMD Tonga
NVIDIA GeForce 940M
VS
AMD Tonga

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce 940M and AMD Tonga. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

620
Place in performance rating
not rated
Maxwell
Architecture
GCN 3.0
GM108
Code name
Tonga
Laptop
Type
Desktop
12 March 2015 (6 years ago)
Release date
no data
$879
Price now
$27
0.38
Value for money
no data
N16S-GT-S/B
GPU code name
Tonga
Laptop
Market segment
Desktop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce 940M and AMD Tonga based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

384
Pipelines
2048
1072 MHz
Core clock speed
no data
1176 MHz
Boost Clock
no data
1,870 million
Transistor count
5,000 million
28 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
75 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
no data
28.22
Texture fill rate
no data
903.2 gflops
Floating-point performance
no data
384
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
1176 MHz
Boost clock speed
no data
1,870 million
Number of transistors
5,000 million
75 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 940M and AMD Tonga.

PCIe 3.0 x8
Interface
no data
medium sized
Laptop size
no data
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 940M and AMD Tonga can be seen in this section.

DDR3
Memory type
no data
4 GB
Maximum RAM amount
no data
64 Bit
Memory bus width
no data
2000 MHz
Memory clock speed
no data
14.4 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
no data
-
Shared memory
no data

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce 940M and AMD Tonga, the size and number of monitors.

No outputs
Display Connectors
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Technologies

The difference between NVIDIA GeForce 940M and AMD Tonga 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 940M and AMD Tonga. 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
no data
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 940M and AMD Tonga 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 940M or AMD Tonga good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 940M
AMD Tonga
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 940M
AMD Tonga
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 940M
AMD Tonga
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 940M
AMD Tonga
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 940M
AMD Tonga
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 940M

4.76% faster in synthetic tests

Advantages of AMD Tonga

Cheaper ($27 vs $879)

More pipelines (2048 vs 384)

So, NVIDIA GeForce 940M or AMD Tonga?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA GeForce 940M .

NVIDIA GeForce 940M versus AMD Tonga performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score NVIDIA GeForce 940M
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