NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M vs AMD Radeon R5 M230

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M

AMD Radeon R5 M230

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M 's Advantages

64 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 M230 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Boost Clock855MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (16.00GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 740M +93%

0.753 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M230

0.39 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740M

VS

Radeon R5 M230

Graphics Card

Jun 2013

Release Date

Jan 2014

GeForce 700M

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

825 MHz

-

Boost Clock

855 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/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

4.880 GPixel/s

31.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.20 GTexel/s

-

752.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

390.4 GFLOPS

31.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

24.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

33W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

GK208

GPU Name

Jet

GT 740M

GPU Variant

Jet S3 ULT

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

2.1 (1.2)

1.1

Vulkan

1.2.170

3.5

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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