GeForce GT 740A vs Radeon HD 8730M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 740A and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8730M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon HD 8730M 's Advantages
Boost Clock700MHz
Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 740A
+40%
753
Radeon HD 8730M
537
Graphics Card
Aug 2013
Release Date
Apr 2013
GeForce 700A
Generation
Solar System
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
650 MHz
-
Boost Clock
700 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
DDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
14.40GB/s
Bandwidth
28.80GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
6
384
Shading Units
384
32
TMUs
24
8
ROPs
8
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
7.840 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.600 GPixel/s
31.36 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
16.80 GTexel/s
752.6 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
537.6 GFLOPS
31.36 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
33.60 GFLOPS
Board Design
33W
TDP
Unknown
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
Graphics Processor
GK208
GPU Name
Mars
GT 740M
GPU Variant
Mars S3 PRO
(216-0842027)
Kepler 2.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.02 billion
Transistors
0.95 billion
87 mm²
Die Size
77 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
1.1
Vulkan
1.2.170
3.5
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
