AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8950M

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 740A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8950M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A 's Advantages

Lower TDP (33W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950M +119%

1.651 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740A

0.753 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

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GeForce GT 740A

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Aug 2013

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 700A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

384

48

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.840 GPixel/s

51.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

31.36 GTexel/s

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1.651 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

752.6 GFLOPS

103.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

31.36 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

33W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

GK208

Saturn XT

GPU Variant

GT 740M

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Kepler 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

1.02 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

87 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.5

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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