AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 740 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 's Advantages
More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)
1152 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 4 months late
Lower TDP (64W vs 185W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1
+272%
2.842 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 740
0.763 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2012
Release Date
May 2014
Southern Islands
Generation
GeForce 700
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
128bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
80.19GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
384
96
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
768 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
29.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
7.944 GPixel/s
88.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
31.78 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.842 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
762.6 GFLOPS
710.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
31.78 GFLOPS
Board Design
185W
TDP
64W
450 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
GK107
Tahiti PRO
(215-0821056)
GPU Variant
GK107-425-A2
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
1.27 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
118 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.1
-
CUDA
3.0
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
