NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 vs AMD Radeon R7 260X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 740 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 's Advantages
Released 7 months late
Lower TDP (64W vs 115W)
AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (104.0GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)
512 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 740
0.763 TFLOPS
Radeon R7 260X
+158%
1.971 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GT 740
516
Radeon R7 260X
+186%
1476
Graphics Card
May 2014
Release Date
Oct 2013
GeForce 700
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1253 MHz
Memory Clock
1625 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
80.19GB/s
Bandwidth
104.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
14
-
-
-
384
Shading Units
896
32
TMUs
56
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
17.60 GPixel/s
31.78 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
61.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
762.6 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.971 TFLOPS
31.78 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
123.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
64W
TDP
115W
250 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GK107
GPU Name
Bonaire
GK107-425-A2
GPU Variant
Bonaire XTX
(215-0839097)
Kepler
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.27 billion
Transistors
2.08 billion
118 mm²
Die Size
160 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.0
1.1
Vulkan
1.2
3.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.3
