GeForce 940A vs Mobility Radeon HD 4870

Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing GeForce 940A and Mobility Radeon HD 4870. Here you can take a closer look at graphics cards specs, such as core clock speed, memory type and size, display connectors, etc. The price, overall benchmark and gaming performances are usually defining factors when it comes to choosing between GeForce 940A and Mobility Radeon HD 4870. Make sure that the graphics card has compatible dimensions and will properly fit in your new or current computer case. Also these graphics cards may have different system power recommendations, so take that into consideration and upgrade your PSU if necessary.

Mobility Radeon HD 4870 is a Laptop Graphics Card

Note: Mobility Radeon HD 4870 is only used in laptop graphics. It has 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 Mobility Radeon HD 4870 here:

Main Specs

  GeForce 940A Mobility Radeon HD 4870
Power consumption (TDP) 33 Watt
Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 PCIe 2.0 x16
Memory type DDR3 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 1 GB
Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
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  • GeForce 940A is connected by PCIe 3.0 x8, and Mobility Radeon HD 4870 uses PCIe 2.0 x16 interface.
  • GeForce 940A and Mobility Radeon HD 4870 have maximum RAM of 1 GB.
  • GeForce 940A is used in Desktops, and Mobility Radeon HD 4870 - in Laptops.
  • GeForce 940A is build with Maxwell architecture, and Mobility Radeon HD 4870 - with Terascale 1.
  • Core clock speed of GeForce 940A is 479 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 4870.
  • GeForce 940A is manufactured by 28 nm process technology, and Mobility Radeon HD 4870 - by 55 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of GeForce 940A is 1114 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 4870.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 4−5 7−8
ultra / 1080p 2−3 4−5
QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
low / 720p 14−16 16−18
medium / 1080p 5−6 8−9
The average gaming FPS of Mobility Radeon HD 4870 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 50% more, than GeForce 940A.

Full Specs

  GeForce 940A Mobility Radeon HD 4870
Architecture Maxwell Terascale 1
Code name GM108 M98-XT
Type Desktop Laptop
Release date 13 March 2015 9 January 2009
Pipelines 384 800
Core clock speed 1029 MHz 550 MHz
Boost Clock 1124 MHz
Transistor count 956 million
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 55 nm
Texture fill rate 17.98 22.00
Floating-point performance 863.2 gflops 880.0 gflops
Memory bus width 64 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 2002 MHz 888 MHz
Memory bandwidth 16.02 GB/s 56.83 GB/s
Shared memory -
DirectX 12 (11_0) 10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model 5.1 4.1
OpenGL 4.6 3.3
OpenCL 1.2 1.1
Vulkan 1.1.126 N/A
CUDA 5.0
Laptop size large
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