AMD Radeon R7 260X vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon R7 260X

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X 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 R7 260X 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (104.0GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

Lower TDP (65W vs 115W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260X +154%

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740 OEM

0.773 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X

VS

GeForce GT 740 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Apr 2015

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

384

56

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.048 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.19 GTexel/s

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

772.6 GFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

32.19 GFLOPS

Board Design

115W

TDP

65W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

GK106

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

2.54 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

221 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

3.0

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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