NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 740M and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 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 120W)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

Boost Clock1301MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

3200 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 740M

0.753 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile +1138%

9.326 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GT 740M

41

Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile +1468%

643

GeForce GT 740M

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Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

Graphics Card

Jun 2013

Release Date

Jun 2018

GeForce 700M

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1138 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1301 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR3

Memory Type

HBM2

64bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

409.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

56

384

Shading Units

3584

32

TMUs

224

8

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

7.840 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

83.26 GPixel/s

31.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

291.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

18.65 TFLOPS

752.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.326 TFLOPS

31.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

582.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK208

GPU Name

Vega 10

GT 740M

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

Kepler 2.0

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.02 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

87 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Board Design

33W

TDP

120W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

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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