NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 vs AMD Radeon HD 6850

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 AMD Radeon HD 6850

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 740 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

Lower TDP (64W vs 127W)

AMD Radeon HD 6850 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 740

0.763 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 +95%

1.488 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740

VS

Radeon HD 6850

Graphics Card

May 2014

Release Date

Oct 2010

GeForce 700

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

12

384

Shading Units

960

32

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

7.944 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.80 GPixel/s

31.78 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

762.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1488 GFLOPS

31.78 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GK107

GPU Name

Barts

GK107-425-A2

GPU Variant

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

Kepler

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.27 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

118 mm²

Die Size

255 mm²

Board Design

64W

TDP

127W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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