NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M vs AMD Radeon HD 6950M

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M AMD Radeon HD 6950M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 740M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6950M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Lower TDP (33W vs 50W)

AMD Radeon HD 6950M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 740M

0.753 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950M +47%

1.114 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740M

VS

Radeon HD 6950M

Graphics Card

Jun 2013

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 700M

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

12

384

Shading Units

960

32

TMUs

48

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

7.840 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.56 GPixel/s

31.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.84 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

752.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1114 GFLOPS

31.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GK208

GPU Name

Blackcomb

GT 740M

GPU Variant

Blackcomb PRO

Kepler 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.02 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

87 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

33W

TDP

50W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.5

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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