AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM

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AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Boost and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 740 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost 's Advantages

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

Lower TDP (65W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 Boost +328%

3.315 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740 OEM

0.773 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Boost

VS

GeForce GT 740 OEM

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Apr 2015

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

925 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

384

112

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.048 GPixel/s

103.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.19 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.315 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

772.6 GFLOPS

828.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

32.19 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GK106

Tahiti PRO2 (215-0821282)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

2.54 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

221 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

65W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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