NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 vs AMD Radeon R9 295X2

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 AMD Radeon R9 295X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 740 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 's Advantages

Lower TDP (64W vs 500W)

AMD Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

2432 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 740

0.763 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 295X2 +651%

5.733 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740

VS

Radeon R9 295X2

Graphics Card

May 2014

Release Date

Apr 2014

GeForce 700

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

44

384

Shading Units

2816

32

TMUs

176

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

7.944 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.15 GPixel/s

31.78 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

179.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

762.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.733 TFLOPS

31.78 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

716.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK107

GPU Name

Vesuvius

GK107-425-A2

GPU Variant

Vesuvius XT (215-0852022)

Kepler

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.27 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

118 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

64W

TDP

500W

250 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.2

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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