NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 740 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition 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 11 months late
Lower TDP (64W vs 228W)
ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.0GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)
1216 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 740
0.763 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition
+256%
2.72 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2014
Release Date
Jun 2010
GeForce 700
Generation
Evergreen
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1253 MHz
Memory Clock
1195 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
80.19GB/s
Bandwidth
153.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
20
-
-
-
384
Shading Units
1600
32
TMUs
80
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
7.944 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
31.78 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
762.6 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.720 TFLOPS
31.78 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
544.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
64W
TDP
228W
250 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GK107
GPU Name
Cypress
GK107-425-A2
GPU Variant
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
Kepler
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
1.27 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
118 mm²
Die Size
334 mm²
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
