GeForce 940MX vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Place in performance ranking	142	657
Place by popularity	not in top-100	76
Value for money	6.16	0.22
Architecture	GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)	Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name	Vega 10	N16S-GTR-B/S
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	27 June 2017 (6 years old)	10 March 2016 (8 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)	$999	no data
Current price	$961 (1x MSRP)	$950

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Vega Frontier Edition has 2700% better value for money than GeForce 940MX.

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 cores	4096	384
Core clock speed	1382 MHz	1122 MHz
Boost clock speed	1600 MHz	1242 MHz
Number of transistors	12,500 million	1,870 million
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	300 Watt	23 Watt
Texture fill rate	409.6	23.83
Floating-point performance	13,107 gflops	762.6 gflops

Size and compatibility

Information on Radeon Vega Frontier Edition and GeForce 940MX compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size	no data	medium sized
Bus support	no data	PCI Express 3.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x8
Length	267 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin	None

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 type	HBM2	DDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	4 GB
Memory bus width	2048 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1890 MHz	4000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	483.8 GB/s	40.1 GB/s
Shared memory	no data	-

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 Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	No outputs
HDMI	+	no data

Technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

GPU Boost	no data	2.0
Optimus	no data	+
GameWorks	no data	+

API support

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

DirectX	12 (12_1)	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	6.4	5.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
OpenCL	2.0	1.2
Vulkan	1.1.125	1.1
CUDA	no data	+

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.

Vega Frontier Edition 34.40
+780%

GeForce 940MX 3.91

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition outperforms GeForce 940MX by 780% based on our aggregated 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%

Vega Frontier Edition 13326
+781%

GeForce 940MX 1513

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition outperforms GeForce 940MX by 781% in Passmark.

GeekBench 5 OpenCL

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.

Benchmark coverage: 9%

Vega Frontier Edition 75593
+1122%

GeForce 940MX 6188

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition outperforms GeForce 940MX by 1122% in GeekBench 5 OpenCL.

GeekBench 5 Vulkan

Benchmark coverage: 5%

Vega Frontier Edition 73760
+1347%

GeForce 940MX 5097

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition outperforms GeForce 940MX by 1347% in GeekBench 5 Vulkan.

Gaming performance

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

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD	150−160 +733%	18 −733%
4K	85−90 +750%	10 −750%

Advantages and disadvantages

Performance score	34.40	3.91
Recency	27 June 2017	10 March 2016
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	4 GB
Chip lithography	14 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	300 Watt	23 Watt