AMD Radeon 740M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 740M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon 740M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 740M

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 23% higher core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 1215 MHz
Around 81% higher boost clock speed: 2500 MHz vs 1379 MHz
226.6x more texture fill rate: 40.00 GTexel/s vs 176.5 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 16 nm
7.7x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 115 Watt
Around 87% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 803 vs 429

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 Jan 2023 vs 27 June 2017
Core clock speed	1500 MHz vs 1215 MHz
Boost clock speed	2500 MHz vs 1379 MHz
Texture fill rate	40.00 GTexel/s vs 176.5 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 16 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 115 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	803 vs 429

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q

8x more pipelines: 2048 vs 256
3.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 9933 vs 3188
4.2x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 41185 vs 9881

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	2048 vs 256
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	9933 vs 3188
Geekbench - OpenCL	41185 vs 9881

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 740M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

803

429

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

3188

9933

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

9881

41185

Name	AMD Radeon 740M	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q
PassMark - G2D Mark	803	429
PassMark - G3D Mark	3188	9933
Geekbench - OpenCL	9881	41185
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		214.123
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		2293.496
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		12.704
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		139.717
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		692.9
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		14915
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		8902
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		8048
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		14915
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		8902
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		8048
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		4887

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 740M	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 3.0	Pascal
Code name	Phoenix	GP104
Launch date	4 Jan 2023	27 June 2017
Place in performance rating	217	233
Type		Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2500 MHz	1379 MHz
Compute units	4
Core clock speed	1500 MHz	1215 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm	16 nm
Pipelines	256	2048
Pixel fill rate	20.00 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	40.00 GTexel/s	176.5 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	115 Watt
Transistor count	25390 million	7,200 million
Floating-point performance		5,648 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	No outputs
G-SYNC support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL	2.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	System Shared	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	System Dependent	256.3 GB / s
Memory bus width	System Shared	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	System Shared	8008 MHz
Memory type	System Shared	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
Multi Monitor
Multi-Projection
VR Ready