AMD Radeon HD 6930 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6930 NVIDIA GeForce GT 740

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6930 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 740 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6930 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Lower TDP (64W vs 186W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6930 +151%

1.92 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740

0.763 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6930

VS

GeForce GT 740

Graphics Card

Dec 2011

Release Date

May 2014

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

384

80

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

24.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.944 GPixel/s

60.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

31.78 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

762.6 GFLOPS

480.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

31.78 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

GK107

Cayman CE (215-0807105)

GPU Variant

GK107-425-A2

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

1.27 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Board Design

186W

TDP

64W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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