NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M vs AMD Radeon Pro 580X

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M AMD Radeon Pro 580X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 740M and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro 580X 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 185W)

AMD Radeon Pro 580X 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1200MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (218.9GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 740M

0.753 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 580X +634%

5.53 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GT 740M

41

Radeon Pro 580X +731%

341

GeForce GT 740M

VS

Radeon Pro 580X

Graphics Card

Jun 2013

Release Date

Mar 2019

GeForce 700M

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1100 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1200 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1710 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

218.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

384

Shading Units

2304

32

TMUs

144

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

7.840 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.40 GPixel/s

31.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

172.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.530 TFLOPS

752.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.530 TFLOPS

31.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

345.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK208

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GT 740M

GPU Variant

Ellesmere XTA (216-0886220)

Kepler 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.02 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

87 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

33W

TDP

185W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

2x HDMI 2.0b

-

Power Connectors

None

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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