NVIDIA GeForce 940A vs AMD Radeon R7 A265

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General info

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

Place in performance ranking781746
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Value for money0.06no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2012−2020)Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code nameOpalGM108
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date9 January 2014 (10 years old)13 March 2015 (9 years old)
Current price$324 no data
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores384384
Core clock speed725 MHz1029 MHz
Boost clock speed825 MHz1124 MHz
Number of transistors950 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data33 Watt
Texture fill rate19.8017.98
Floating-point performance633.6 gflops863.2 gflops

Size and 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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8PCIe 3.0 x8
Widthno dataIGP

Memory

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 amount2 GB1 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1800 MHz2002 MHz
Memory bandwidth28.8 GB/s16.02 GB/s

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API support

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.1.126
CUDAno data5.0

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

R7 A265
2.56

GeForce 940A outperforms Radeon R7 A265 by 11% in our combined benchmark results.


Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

R7 A265 993
GeForce 940A 1106
+11.4%

GeForce 940A outperforms Radeon R7 A265 by 11% in Passmark.

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Advantages and disadvantages


Performance score 2.56 2.85
Recency 9 January 2014 13 March 2015
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1 GB
Memory bus width 128 64
Memory bandwidth 28.8 16.02

The GeForce 940A is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon R7 A265 in performance tests.


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