AMD FireStream 9170 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 740 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FireStream 9170 's Advantages
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 6 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)
64 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (64W vs 105W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9170
0.497 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 740
+53%
0.763 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2007
Release Date
May 2014
FireStream
Generation
GeForce 700
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
802 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
51.33GB/s
Bandwidth
80.19GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
320
Shading Units
384
16
TMUs
32
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
256 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
12.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
7.944 GPixel/s
12.43 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
31.78 GTexel/s
-
-
-
497.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
762.6 GFLOPS
99.46 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
31.78 GFLOPS
Board Design
105W
TDP
64W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
RV670
GPU Name
GK107
-
GPU Variant
GK107-425-A2
TeraScale
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.666 billion
Transistors
1.27 billion
192 mm²
Die Size
118 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.1
-
CUDA
3.0
4.1
Shader Model
5.1
