NVIDIA GeForce 940M
VS
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850
NVIDIA GeForce 940M
VS
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce 940M and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

620
Place in performance rating
535
Maxwell
Architecture
Terascale 2
GM108
Code name
Broadway
Laptop
Type
Laptop
12 March 2015 (6 years ago)
Release date
7 January 2010 (11 years ago)
$879
Price now
$153
0.38
Value for money
1.15
N16S-GT-S/B
GPU code name
Broadway-PRO
Laptop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce 940M and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

384
Pipelines
800
1072 MHz
Core clock speed
625 MHz
1176 MHz
Boost Clock
no data
1,870 million
Transistor count
1,040 million
28 nm
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
75 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
30 Watt
28.22
Texture fill rate
20.00
903.2 gflops
Floating-point performance
800.0 gflops
384
Pipelines / CUDA cores
800
1176 MHz
Boost clock speed
no data
1,870 million
Number of transistors
1,040 million
75 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
30 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce 940M and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850.

PCIe 3.0 x8
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
medium sized
Laptop size
large
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 ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 can be seen in this section.

DDR3
Memory type
DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
4 GB
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
64 Bit
Memory bus width
128 Bit
2000 MHz
Memory clock speed
2000 MHz
14.4 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
64 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce 940M and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850, the size and number of monitors.

No outputs
Display Connectors
No outputs

Technologies

The difference between NVIDIA GeForce 940M and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 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 ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.5
OpenGL
4.4
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 ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 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 ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 940M
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 940M
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 940M
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 940M
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 940M
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850
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

0.039999999999999% faster in synthetic tests

Finer manufacturing process technology (28 nm vs 40 nm)

More maximum RAM amount (4 GB vs 1 GB)

Advantages of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850

Cheaper ($153 vs $879)

More pipelines (800 vs 384)

Less power consumption (30 Watt vs 75 Watt)

More memory bandwidth (64 GB/s vs 14.4 GB/s)

So, NVIDIA GeForce 940M or ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850?

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

NVIDIA GeForce 940M versus ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

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