NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 vs AMD FireStream 9250
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 740 and 1024MB VRAM FireStream 9250 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 11 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 63.55GB/s)
Lower TDP (64W vs 150W)
AMD FireStream 9250 's Advantages
416 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 740
0.763 TFLOPS
FireStream 9250
+31%
1 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2014
Release Date
Jun 2008
GeForce 700
Generation
FireStream
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1253 MHz
Memory Clock
993 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
80.19GB/s
Bandwidth
63.55GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
10
-
-
-
384
Shading Units
800
32
TMUs
40
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
7.944 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.00 GPixel/s
31.78 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
25.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
762.6 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1000 GFLOPS
31.78 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
200.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
64W
TDP
150W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GK107
GPU Name
RV770
GK107-425-A2
GPU Variant
RV770 PRO
Kepler
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
55 nm
1.27 billion
Transistors
0.956 billion
118 mm²
Die Size
256 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
Vulkan
N/A
3.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
4.1
