AMD Radeon Sky 500 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740

VS

AMD Radeon Sky 500

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Sky 500 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 Sky 500 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

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

896 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Lower TDP (64W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Sky 500 +218%

2.432 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740

0.763 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 500

VS

GeForce GT 740

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

May 2014

Radeon Sky

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

384

80

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

30.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.944 GPixel/s

76.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

31.78 GTexel/s

-

2.432 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

762.6 GFLOPS

152.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

31.78 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

64W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GK107

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

GPU Variant

GK107-425-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

1.27 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

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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