NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 740 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 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 151W)
AMD Radeon HD 6870 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)
736 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 740
0.763 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 6870
+164%
2.016 TFLOPS
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
-
-
-
-
-
-
1253 MHz
Memory Clock
1050 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
80.19GB/s
Bandwidth
134.4GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
14
-
-
-
384
Shading Units
1120
32
TMUs
56
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
28.80 GPixel/s
31.78 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
50.40 GTexel/s
-
-
-
762.6 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.016 TFLOPS
31.78 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
64W
TDP
151W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 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
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GK107
GPU Name
Barts
GK107-425-A2
GPU Variant
Barts XT
(215-0798000)
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
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
