AMD Radeon 740M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 740M and NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M 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 GT 740M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 740M

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 85% higher core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 810 MHz
2.6x more boost clock speed: 2500 MHz vs 980 MHz
2551x more texture fill rate: 40.00 GTexel/s vs 15.68 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 28 nm
3x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 45 Watt
5.4x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 811 vs 149
4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3209 vs 793
2.6x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 10125 vs 3866

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 Jan 2023 vs 1 April 2013
Core clock speed	1500 MHz vs 810 MHz
Boost clock speed	2500 MHz vs 980 MHz
Texture fill rate	40.00 GTexel/s vs 15.68 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 45 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	811 vs 149
PassMark - G3D Mark	3209 vs 793
Geekbench - OpenCL	10125 vs 3866

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M

Around 50% higher pipelines: 384 vs 256

Pipelines	384 vs 256

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 740M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

811

149

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

3209

793

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

10125

3866

Name	AMD Radeon 740M	NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M
PassMark - G2D Mark	811	149
PassMark - G3D Mark	3209	793
Geekbench - OpenCL	10125	3866
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		9.392
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		157.479
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		0.864
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		16.101
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		44.77
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		1589
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3235
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3339
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		1589
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3235
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3339
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		345

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 740M	NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 3.0	Kepler
Code name	Phoenix	GK107
Launch date	4 Jan 2023	1 April 2013
Place in performance rating	236	1301
Type		Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2500 MHz	980 MHz
Compute units	4
Core clock speed	1500 MHz	810 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	256	384
Pixel fill rate	20.00 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	40.00 GTexel/s	15.68 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	45 Watt
Transistor count	25390 million	1,270 million
Floating-point performance		752.6 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	No outputs
7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support		Up to 3840x2160
eDP 1.2 signal support		Up to 3840x2160
HDCP content protection
HDMI
LVDS signal support		Up to 1920x1200
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
VGA аnalog display support		Up to 2048x1536
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None
Bus support		PCI Express 3.0
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12 API
OpenCL	2.1	1.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	System Shared	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	System Dependent	14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	System Shared	64 / 128 Bit
Memory clock speed	System Shared	1802 MHz
Memory type	System Shared	DDR3
Shared memory		0
Standard memory configuration		DDR3 / GDDR5
Technologies
3D Vision
3D Vision / 3DTV Play
Blu-Ray 3D Support
CUDA
Direct Compute
FXAA
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus