Radeon HD 8830M vs GeForce 940A

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking836not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency6.10no data
ArchitectureMaxwell (2014−2017)GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code nameGM108Venus
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date13 March 2015 (10 years ago)1 April 2013 (12 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores384640
Core clock speed1029 MHz575 MHz
Boost clock speed1124 MHz625 MHz
Number of transistorsno data1,500 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)33 Wattno data
Texture fill rate17.9825.00
Floating-point processing power0.8632 TFLOPS0.8 TFLOPS
ROPs816
TMUs1640

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8PCIe 3.0 x16

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR3DDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB2 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1001 MHz1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth16.02 GB/s32 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API and SDK compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (11_1)
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.1.1261.2.131
CUDA5.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 March 2015 1 April 2013
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2 GB

GeForce 940A has an age advantage of 1 year.

HD 8830M, on the other hand, has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 940A and Radeon HD 8830M. We've got no test results to judge.

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NVIDIA GeForce 940A
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