NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 740 OEM and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition 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 2 years and 8 months late

Lower TDP (65W vs 151W)

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

1056 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 740 OEM

0.773 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition +170%

2.088 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2015

Release Date

Aug 2012

GeForce 700

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

18

-

384

Shading Units

1440

32

TMUs

72

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.048 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

32.19 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

52.20 GTexel/s

-

772.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.088 TFLOPS

32.19 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

417.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

65W

TDP

151W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GK106

GPU Name

Cypress

-

GPU Variant

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

Kepler

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.54 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

221 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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