NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM vs AMD Radeon RX 550X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM

AMD Radeon RX 550X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 740 OEM and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550X 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 65W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 740 OEM

0.773 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X +56%

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740 OEM

VS

Radeon RX 550X

Graphics Card

Apr 2015

Release Date

Dec 2018

GeForce 700

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1100 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1183 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

-

384

Shading Units

512

32

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.048 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

32.19 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.86 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1211 GFLOPS

772.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1211 GFLOPS

32.19 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.71 GFLOPS

Board Design

65W

TDP

50W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GK106

GPU Name

Lexa

-

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

Kepler

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.54 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

221 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.1

Vulkan

1.2

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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