AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 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 RX Vega 56 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1471MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

3200 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 210W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega 56 +1263%

10.54 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740 OEM

0.773 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 56

VS

GeForce GT 740 OEM

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Apr 2015

Vega

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1156 MHz

Base Clock

-

1471 MHz

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

128bit

409.6GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

56

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

384

224

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

4 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

94.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.048 GPixel/s

329.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.19 GTexel/s

21.09 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.54 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

772.6 GFLOPS

659.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

32.19 GFLOPS

Board Design

210W

TDP

65W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

GK106

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 5.0

Architecture

Kepler

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

2.54 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

221 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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