NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M vs AMD Radeon 550X Mobile

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M

AMD Radeon 550X Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 740M and 4GB VRAM Radeon 550X Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (33W vs 50W)

AMD Radeon 550X Mobile 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1287MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.00GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 740M

0.753 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X Mobile +118%

1.647 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740M

VS

Radeon 550X Mobile

Graphics Card

Jun 2013

Release Date

Apr 2018

GeForce 700M

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1100 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1287 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

-

384

Shading Units

640

32

TMUs

40

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

20.59 GPixel/s

31.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.48 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1.647 TFLOPS

752.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.647 TFLOPS

31.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

103.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

33W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GK208

GPU Name

Polaris 23

GT 740M

GPU Variant

Polaris 23 MXT

Kepler 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.02 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

87 mm²

Die Size

103 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

3.5

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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