Radeon R9 280 vs GeForce GT 740
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 740 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 280 's Advantages
Boost Clock933MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)
1408 additional rendering cores
GeForce GT 740 's Advantages
Lower TDP (64W vs 200W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280
+338%
3344
GeForce GT 740
763
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon R9 280
+289%
2009
GeForce GT 740
516
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
May 2014
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 700
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
827 MHz
Base Clock
-
933 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
128bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
80.19GB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
-
1792
Shading Units
384
112
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
768 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
29.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
7.944 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
31.78 GTexel/s
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
762.6 GFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
31.78 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
64W
550 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
GK107
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GPU Variant
GK107-425-A2
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
1.27 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
118 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.1
-
CUDA
3.0
5.1
Shader Model
5.1