NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A vs AMD Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A

AMD Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 740A and 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A 's Advantages

64 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Boost Clock850MHz

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 740A +38%

0.753 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

0.544 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740A

VS

Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

Graphics Card

Aug 2013

Release Date

May 2014

GeForce 700A

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

780 MHz

-

Boost Clock

850 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

5

-

384

Shading Units

320

32

TMUs

20

8

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

7.840 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.800 GPixel/s

31.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.00 GTexel/s

-

752.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

544.0 GFLOPS

31.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

34.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

33W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GK208

GPU Name

Sun

GT 740M

GPU Variant

Sun LE

Kepler 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.02 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

87 mm²

Die Size

56 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

Vulkan

1.2

3.5

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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