NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A vs AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 740A and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 56 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 210W)

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

Boost Clock1250MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (402.4GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

3200 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 740A

0.753 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Vega 56 +1089%

8.96 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740A

VS

Radeon Pro Vega 56

Graphics Card

Aug 2013

Release Date

Aug 2017

GeForce 700A

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1138 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1250 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

786 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR3

Memory Type

HBM2

64bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

402.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

56

-

384

Shading Units

3584

32

TMUs

224

8

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

7.840 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.00 GPixel/s

31.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

280.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

17.92 TFLOPS

752.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.960 TFLOPS

31.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

560.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

33W

TDP

210W

-

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GK208

GPU Name

Vega 10

GT 740M

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

Kepler 2.0

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.02 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

87 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.1

Vulkan

1.2

3.5

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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