NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM

ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 740 OEM and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

144 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (65W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 740 OEM +168%

0.773 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 GT

0.288 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 2900 GT

Graphics Card

Apr 2015

Release Date

Nov 2007

GeForce 700

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

3

-

384

Shading Units

240

32

TMUs

12

16

ROPs

12

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.048 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.212 GPixel/s

32.19 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.212 GTexel/s

-

772.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

288.5 GFLOPS

32.19 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

65W

TDP

150W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GK106

GPU Name

R600

-

GPU Variant

R600 GT (215RGFDKA13FG)

Kepler

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.54 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

221 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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