NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A vs AMD Radeon E8950

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A

AMD Radeon E8950

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 740A and 8GB VRAM Radeon E8950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A 's Advantages

Lower TDP (33W vs 95W)

AMD Radeon E8950 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 740A

0.753 TFLOPS

Radeon E8950 +443%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740A

VS

Radeon E8950

Graphics Card

Aug 2013

Release Date

Sep 2015

GeForce 700A

Generation

Embedded

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

735 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

-

384

Shading Units

2048

32

TMUs

128

8

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

7.840 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

31.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.096 TFLOPS

752.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

31.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

256.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

33W

TDP

95W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GK208

GPU Name

Amethyst

GT 740M

GPU Variant

E8950

Kepler 2.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.02 billion

Transistors

5 billion

87 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.2

3.5

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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