NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A vs AMD FirePro M8900

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A

AMD FirePro M8900

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 740A and 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Lower TDP (33W vs 75W)

AMD FirePro M8900 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 740A

0.753 TFLOPS

FirePro M8900 +73%

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740A

VS

FirePro M8900

Graphics Card

Aug 2013

Release Date

Apr 2011

GeForce 700A

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

-

384

Shading Units

960

32

TMUs

48

8

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

7.840 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

31.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

-

752.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

31.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

33W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GK208

GPU Name

Blackcomb

GT 740M

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XT GL

Kepler 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.02 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

87 mm²

Die Size

212 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

3.5

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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