NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A vs AMD Radeon R9 M280X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A

AMD Radeon R9 M280X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 740A and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M280X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M280X 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 740A

0.753 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M280X +137%

1.792 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740A

VS

Radeon R9 M280X

Graphics Card

Aug 2013

Release Date

Feb 2015

GeForce 700A

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

-

384

Shading Units

896

32

TMUs

56

8

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

7.840 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.00 GPixel/s

31.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

56.00 GTexel/s

-

752.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.792 TFLOPS

31.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

112.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

33W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

GK208

GPU Name

Saturn

GT 740M

GPU Variant

Saturn XT (216-0843024)

Kepler 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.02 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

87 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.1

Vulkan

1.2.170

3.5

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile

2

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A vs NVIDIA GeForce 830A

3

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4850 X2

4

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4350

5

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Max-Q

6

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB

7

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A vs AMD Radeon RX 6650M XT

8

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Mobile

9

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M LE

10

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A vs AMD Radeon R7 M370

Related News

1

Introducing the AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX: A First Look at the Flagship Gaming Laptop CPU

2

AMD's Thunderous Strike: Ryzen 9 9950X3D Performance Scores Revealed for the First Time!

3

Continuous Decline in DRAM Memory Prices: Downward Trend Intensifies

4

NVIDIA GB202 Chip Unveiled for the First Time, to be Used in RTX 5090 with 512-bit GDDR7 Memory

5

Strix Halo Integrated Graphics Score Appears on Passmark, Currently Slightly Below RTX 3060 12GB

6

AMD Unveils New RX 9070 XT Graphics Card Performance: Positioned Between RX 7900 GRE and RX 7900 XT

7

Double the Excitement! AMD FSR 4.0 to Launch Alongside RX 9070 XT Graphics Card

8

CPU-Z Minor Update: Support for Intel's Four New Products and New Memory

9

CXMT Reportedly Achieves 80% Yield in DDR5 Production

10

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N