NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 740 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT 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 107W)
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock2815MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (143.9GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)
640 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 740
0.763 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 6500 XT
+655%
5.765 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GT 740
516
Radeon RX 6500 XT
+859%
4953
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GT 740
182
Radeon RX 6500 XT
+1152%
2280
Graphics Card
May 2014
Release Date
Jan 2022
GeForce 700
Generation
Navi II
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x4
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
2310 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2815 MHz
1253 MHz
Memory Clock
2248 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
80.19GB/s
Bandwidth
143.9GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
16
-
-
-
384
Shading Units
1024
32
TMUs
64
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
RT Cores
16
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
128 KB per Array
256 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
L3 Cache
16 MB
Theoretical Performance
7.944 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
90.08 GPixel/s
31.78 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
180.2 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
11.53 TFLOPS
762.6 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.765 TFLOPS
31.78 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
360.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
64W
TDP
107W
250 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GK107
GPU Name
Navi 24
GK107-425-A2
GPU Variant
Navi 24 XT
(215-135000006)
Kepler
Architecture
RDNA 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
6 nm
1.27 billion
Transistors
5.4 billion
118 mm²
Die Size
107 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.2
1.1
Vulkan
1.3
3.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.6
