NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A vs AMD Radeon HD 6870M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A

AMD Radeon HD 6870M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 740A and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870M 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 7 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (33W vs 50W)

AMD Radeon HD 6870M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

416 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 740A

0.753 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870M +43%

1.08 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740A

VS

Radeon HD 6870M

Graphics Card

Aug 2013

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 700A

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

-

384

Shading Units

800

32

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

7.840 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.80 GPixel/s

31.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.00 GTexel/s

-

752.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1080 GFLOPS

31.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

33W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GK208

GPU Name

Granville

GT 740M

GPU Variant

Granville XT (216-0769024)

Kepler 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.02 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

87 mm²

Die Size

166 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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