NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M vs AMD Radeon HD 7850M

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M AMD Radeon HD 7850M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 740M and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7850M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Lower TDP (33W vs 40W)

AMD Radeon HD 7850M 's Advantages

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

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 740M

0.753 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7850M +14%

0.864 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740M

VS

Radeon HD 7850M

Graphics Card

Jun 2013

Release Date

Apr 2012

GeForce 700M

Generation

London

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

384

Shading Units

640

32

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 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

-

FP16 (half)

-

752.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

864.0 GFLOPS

31.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

54.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK208

GPU Name

Heathrow

GT 740M

GPU Variant

Heathrow PRO

Kepler 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.02 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

87 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

33W

TDP

40W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

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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