Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs GeForce GT 740 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 740 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)
1216 additional rendering cores
GeForce GT 740 OEM 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 1 months late
Lower TDP (65W vs 228W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
+251%
2720
GeForce GT 740 OEM
773
Graphics Card
Mar 2010
Release Date
Apr 2015
Evergreen
Generation
GeForce 700
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
80.19GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
-
1600
Shading Units
384
80
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
16
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
512 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
27.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
8.048 GPixel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
32.19 GTexel/s
2.720 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
772.6 GFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
32.19 GFLOPS
Board Design
228W
TDP
65W
550 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
GK106
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
GPU Variant
-
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
2.54 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
221 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.1
-
CUDA
3.0
5.0
Shader Model
5.1
