NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M AMD Radeon R9 M290X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 740M and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X 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 100W)

AMD Radeon R9 M290X 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Boost Clock900MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 740M

0.753 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X +205%

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740M

VS

Radeon R9 M290X

Graphics Card

Jun 2013

Release Date

Jan 2014

GeForce 700M

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

384

Shading Units

1280

32

TMUs

80

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

7.840 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

31.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

752.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

31.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK208

GPU Name

Neptune

GT 740M

GPU Variant

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

Kepler 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.02 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

87 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

33W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

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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