NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM

AMD Radeon R9 280X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 740 OEM and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X 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 1 years and 6 months late

Lower TDP (65W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 740 OEM

0.773 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X +429%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740 OEM

VS

Radeon R9 280X

Graphics Card

Apr 2015

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 700

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

-

384

Shading Units

2048

32

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.048 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

32.19 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

-

772.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

32.19 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Board Design

65W

TDP

250W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GK106

GPU Name

Tahiti

-

GPU Variant

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

Kepler

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.54 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

221 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

Vulkan

1.2

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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