NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 740A and 512MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

64 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (33W vs 110W)

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (54.40GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 740A +78%

0.753 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

0.422 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740A

VS

Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

Graphics Card

Aug 2013

Release Date

Sep 2008

GeForce 700A

Generation

M8x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

54.40GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

-

384

Shading Units

320

32

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

7.840 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.56 GPixel/s

31.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.56 GTexel/s

-

752.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

422.4 GFLOPS

31.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

84.48 GFLOPS

Board Design

33W

TDP

110W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GK208

GPU Name

M88

GT 740M

GPU Variant

-

Kepler 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.02 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

87 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.5

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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