NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 vs AMD Radeon R9 295X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 740 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 's Advantages
Lower TDP (64W vs 500W)
AMD Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)
2432 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 740
0.763 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 295X2
+651%
5.733 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2014
Release Date
Apr 2014
GeForce 700
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1253 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
512bit
80.19GB/s
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
44
-
-
-
384
Shading Units
2816
32
TMUs
176
16
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
7.944 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
65.15 GPixel/s
31.78 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
179.2 GTexel/s
-
-
-
762.6 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.733 TFLOPS
31.78 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
716.7 GFLOPS
Board Design
64W
TDP
500W
250 W
Suggested PSU
900 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GK107
GPU Name
Vesuvius
GK107-425-A2
GPU Variant
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
Kepler
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.27 billion
Transistors
6.2 billion
118 mm²
Die Size
438 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
