NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 vs AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 740 and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X 640SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock1071MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)
256 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (60W vs 64W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 740
0.763 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 550X 640SP
+79%
1.371 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2014
Release Date
Apr 2018
GeForce 700
Generation
Polaris
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1019 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1071 MHz
1253 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
80.19GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
10
-
-
-
384
Shading Units
640
32
TMUs
40
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
7.944 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
17.14 GPixel/s
31.78 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
42.84 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
1371 GFLOPS
762.6 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1371 GFLOPS
31.78 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
85.68 GFLOPS
Board Design
64W
TDP
60W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0b
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GK107
GPU Name
Baffin
GK107-425-A2
GPU Variant
Baffin LE
Kepler
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
28 nm
Process Size
14 nm
1.27 billion
Transistors
3 billion
118 mm²
Die Size
123 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
