AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M

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AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56 NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 56 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 740M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1250MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (402.4GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

3200 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (33W vs 210W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro Vega 56 +1089%

8.96 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740M

0.753 TFLOPS

Blender

Radeon Pro Vega 56 +1170%

521

GeForce GT 740M

41

Radeon Pro Vega 56

VS

GeForce GT 740M

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Jun 2013

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

GeForce 700M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1138 MHz

Base Clock

-

1250 MHz

Boost Clock

-

786 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM2

Memory Type

DDR3

2048bit

Memory Bus

64bit

402.4GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

56

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

384

224

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

80.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.840 GPixel/s

280.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

31.36 GTexel/s

17.92 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.960 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

752.6 GFLOPS

560.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

31.36 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

GK208

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

GT 740M

GCN 5.0

Architecture

Kepler 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

1.02 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

87 mm²

Board Design

210W

TDP

33W

-

Suggested PSU

-

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.5

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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