AMD Radeon 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon 540

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 740 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Lower TDP (50W vs 65W)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

AMD Radeon 540 +17%

0.908 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740 OEM

0.773 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

VS

GeForce GT 740 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Apr 2015

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

32bit

Memory Bus

128bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

384

Shading Units

384

24

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.048 GPixel/s

28.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.19 GTexel/s

908.5 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

908.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

772.6 GFLOPS

56.78 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

32.19 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

65W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GK106

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Kepler

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

2.54 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

221 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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