NVIDIA GeForce 940MX
VS
AMD Radeon R9 M380
NVIDIA GeForce 940MX
VS
AMD Radeon R9 M380

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce 940MX and AMD Radeon R9 M380. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

538
Place in performance rating
378
Maxwell
Architecture
GCN
GM108
Code name
Strato
Laptop
Type
Laptop
10 March 2016 (5 years ago)
Release date
16 June 2015 (6 years ago)
$950
Price now
no data
0.81
Value for money
no data
N16S-GTR-B/S
GPU code name
Strato Pro GDDR5
Laptop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce 940MX and AMD Radeon R9 M380 based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

384
Pipelines
768
1122 MHz
Core clock speed
1000 MHz
993 MHz
Boost Clock
1000 MHz
1,870 million
Transistor count
2,080 million
28 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
23 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
no data
23.83
Texture fill rate
48.00
762.6 gflops
Floating-point performance
1,536 gflops
384
Pipelines / CUDA cores
768
1242 MHz
Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
1,870 million
Number of transistors
2,080 million
23 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 940MX and AMD Radeon R9 M380.

PCIe 3.0 x8
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
None
Supplementary power connectors
no data
medium sized
Laptop size
medium sized
PCI Express 3.0
Bus support
PCIe 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 NVIDIA GeForce 940MX and AMD Radeon R9 M380 can be seen in this section.

DDR3, GDDR5
Memory type
GDDR5
4 GB
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
64 Bit
Memory bus width
128 Bit
4000 MHz
Memory clock speed
1500 MHz
40.1 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
96 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce 940MX and AMD Radeon R9 M380, the size and number of monitors.

No outputs
Display Connectors
No outputs
no data
Eyefinity
1

Technologies

The difference between NVIDIA GeForce 940MX and AMD Radeon R9 M380 is the additional functionality.

2.0
GPU Boost
no data
+
CUDA
no data
+
GeForce Experience
no data
+
Optimus
no data
+
GameWorks
no data
no data
AppAcceleration
-
no data
FreeSync
1
no data
HD3D
+
no data
PowerTune
+
no data
TrueAudio
+
no data
ZeroCore
+
no data
Enduro
-
no data
DualGraphics
1
no data
Switchable graphics
1
no data
DirectCompute 5.0
+

API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce 940MX and AMD Radeon R9 M380. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 (11_0)
DirectX
DirectX® 12
4.5
OpenGL
4.4
1.1
Vulkan
no data
5.1
Shader Model
6.3
1.2
OpenCL
Not Listed
no data
Mantle
+

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce 940MX and AMD Radeon R9 M380 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 940MX or AMD Radeon R9 M380 good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 940MX
AMD Radeon R9 M380
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 940MX
AMD Radeon R9 M380
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 940MX 48.3 23 17.6 11.2
AMD Radeon R9 M380
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 940MX
AMD Radeon R9 M380
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 940MX
AMD Radeon R9 M380
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 940MX

There is no accountable advantage

Advantages of AMD Radeon R9 M380

7.02% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (768 vs 384)

More memory bandwidth (96 GB/s vs 40.1 GB/s)

So, NVIDIA GeForce 940MX or AMD Radeon R9 M380?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon R9 M380 .

NVIDIA GeForce 940MX versus AMD Radeon R9 M380 performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score NVIDIA GeForce 940MX
0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score AMD Radeon R9 M380