NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 vs AMD Radeon RX 470
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 740 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 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 120W)
AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1206MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)
1664 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 740
0.763 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 470
+547%
4.94 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GT 740
516
Radeon RX 470
+612%
3679
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GT 740
182
Radeon RX 470
+834%
1701
Graphics Card
May 2014
Release Date
Aug 2016
GeForce 700
Generation
Arctic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
926 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1206 MHz
1253 MHz
Memory Clock
1650 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
80.19GB/s
Bandwidth
211.2GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
32
-
-
-
384
Shading Units
2048
32
TMUs
128
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
7.944 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
38.59 GPixel/s
31.78 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
154.4 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
4.940 TFLOPS
762.6 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.940 TFLOPS
31.78 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
308.7 GFLOPS
Board Design
64W
TDP
120W
250 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GK107
GPU Name
Ellesmere
GK107-425-A2
GPU Variant
Polaris 10 PRO
(215-0876204)
Kepler
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
28 nm
Process Size
14 nm
1.27 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
118 mm²
Die Size
232 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.1
Vulkan
1.2
3.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.4
