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    GeForce 940A vs Mobility Radeon HD 5870

    If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between GeForce 940A and Mobility Radeon HD 5870, 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 940A stacks up against Mobility Radeon HD 5870, check out specs charts below.
    GeForce 940A
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    Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is a Laptop Graphics Card

    Note: Mobility Radeon HD 5870 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 5870 here:

    Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Laptops

    Main Specs

      GeForce 940A Mobility Radeon HD 5870
    Power consumption (TDP) 33 Watt 50 Watt
    Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 MXM-B (3.0)
    Memory type DDR3 DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
    Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 1 GB
    Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
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    • Mobility Radeon HD 5870 has 51% more power consumption, than GeForce 940A.
    • GeForce 940A is connected by PCIe 3.0 x8, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 uses MXM-B (3.0) interface.
    • GeForce 940A and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 have maximum RAM of 1 GB.
    • GeForce 940A is used in Desktops, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 - in Laptops.
    • GeForce 940A is build with Maxwell architecture, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 - with Terascale 2.
    • Core clock speed of GeForce 940A is 329 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.
    • GeForce 940A is manufactured by 28 nm process technology, and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 - by 40 nm process technology.
    • Memory clock speed of GeForce 940A is 1002 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5870.

    Game benchmarks

    high / 1080p 4−5 10−11
    ultra / 1080p 2−3 6−7
    QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
    low / 720p 14−16 21−24
    medium / 1080p 5−6 12−14
    The average gaming FPS of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 116% more, than GeForce 940A.

    Full Specs

      GeForce 940A Mobility Radeon HD 5870
    Architecture Maxwell Terascale 2
    Code name GM108 Broadway-XT
    Type Desktop Laptop
    Release date 13 March 2015 7 January 2010
    Pipelines 384 800
    Core clock speed 1029 MHz 700 MHz
    Boost Clock 1124 MHz
    Transistor count 1,040 million
    Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
    Texture fill rate 17.98 28.00
    Floating-point performance 863.2 gflops 1,120.0 gflops
    Memory bus width 64 Bit 128 Bit
    Memory clock speed 2002 MHz 1000 MHz
    Memory bandwidth 16.02 GB/s 64 GB/s
    Shared memory -
    DirectX 12 (11_0) 11.2 (11_0)
    Shader Model 5.1 5.0
    OpenGL 4.6 4.4
    OpenCL 1.2 1.2
    Vulkan 1.1.126 N/A
    CUDA 5.0
    Laptop size large
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