GeForce 940M vs Mobility Radeon HD 5830

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between GeForce 940M and Mobility Radeon HD 5830, there are a couple of things to consider. Cards with more VRAM in general perform better and allow you to play on higher graphics settings. Size also makes a difference. A model with a large heatsink can occupy up to three expansion slots on a motherboard. Be sure you have enough room in your PC case. When comparing GPUs with different architectures, more processing cores and even higher TFLOPS will not always translate to better performance. To help you decide which GPU you need, we have measured frame rates in a number of popular games. For more on how the GeForce 940M stacks up against Mobility Radeon HD 5830, check out specs charts below.

GeForce 940M and Mobility Radeon HD 5830 are Laptop Graphics Cards

Note: GeForce 940M and Mobility Radeon HD 5830 are only used in laptop graphics. They have lower GPU clock speed compared to the desktop variant, which results in lower power consumption, but also 10-30% lower gaming performance. Check available laptop models with GeForce 940M or Mobility Radeon HD 5830 here:

Main Specs

  GeForce 940M Mobility Radeon HD 5830
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 24 Watt
Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 PCIe 2.0 x16
Memory type DDR3 DDR3, GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 1 GB
Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
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  • GeForce 940M has 212% more power consumption, than Mobility Radeon HD 5830.
  • GeForce 940M is connected by PCIe 3.0 x8, and Mobility Radeon HD 5830 uses PCIe 2.0 x16 interface.
  • GeForce 940M has 3 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5830.
  • Both cards are used in Laptops.
  • GeForce 940M is build with Maxwell architecture, and Mobility Radeon HD 5830 - with Terascale 2.
  • Core clock speed of GeForce 940M is 572 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5830.
  • GeForce 940M is manufactured by 28 nm process technology, and Mobility Radeon HD 5830 - by 40 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of GeForce 940M is 1200 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5830.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 2−3 4−5
ultra / 1080p 1−2 2−3
QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
low / 720p 12−14 16−18
medium / 1080p 4−5 6−7
The average gaming FPS of Mobility Radeon HD 5830 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 40% more, than GeForce 940M.

Full Specs

  GeForce 940M Mobility Radeon HD 5830
Architecture Maxwell Terascale 2
Code name N16S-GT-S/B Broadway
Type Laptop Laptop
Release date 12 March 2015 7 January 2010
Pipelines 384 800
Core clock speed 1072 MHz 500 MHz
Boost Clock 1176 MHz
Transistor count 1,870 million 1,040 million
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 28.22 20.00
Floating-point performance 903.2 gflops 800.0 gflops
Memory bus width 64 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz 800 MHz
Memory bandwidth 14.4 GB/s 25.6 GB/s
Shared memory - -
DirectX 12 (11_0) 11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model 5.1 5.0
OpenGL 4.5 4.4
OpenCL 1.2 1.2
Vulkan 1.1.126 N/A
CUDA +
Bus support PCI Express 3.0
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 101 Mh/s
Laptop size medium sized large
Optimus +
GPU Boost 2.0
GameWorks +
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