AMD Radeon 740M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 740M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. 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 1660 SUPER

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 740M

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 40% higher boost clock speed: 2500 MHz vs 1785 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 12 nm
8.3x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 125 Watt

Launch date	4 Jan 2023 vs 29 Oct 2019
Boost clock speed	2500 MHz vs 1785 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 12 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 125 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

Around 2% higher core clock speed: 1530 MHz vs 1500 MHz
3.9x more texture fill rate: 157.1 GTexel/s vs 40.00 GTexel/s
5.5x more pipelines: 1408 vs 256
4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 12752 vs 3188
6.3x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 62638 vs 9881

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1530 MHz vs 1500 MHz
Texture fill rate	157.1 GTexel/s vs 40.00 GTexel/s
Pipelines	1408 vs 256
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	806 vs 803
PassMark - G3D Mark	12752 vs 3188
Geekbench - OpenCL	62638 vs 9881

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 740M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

803

806

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

3188

12752

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

9881

62638

Name	AMD Radeon 740M	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
PassMark - G2D Mark	803	806
PassMark - G3D Mark	3188	12752
Geekbench - OpenCL	9881	62638
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		187.131
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		2548.187
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		15.882
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		117.673
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		901.388
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		17812
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3351
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		17812
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3351
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		5990

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 740M	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 3.0	Turing
Code name	Phoenix	TU116
Launch date	4 Jan 2023	29 Oct 2019
Place in performance rating	217	218
Launch price (MSRP)		$229
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2500 MHz	1785 MHz
Compute units	4
Core clock speed	1500 MHz	1530 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm	12 nm
Pipelines	256	1408
Pixel fill rate	20.00 GPixel/s	85.68 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	40.00 GTexel/s	157.1 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	125 Watt
Transistor count	25390 million	6600 million
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance		157.1 GFLOPS (1:32)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance		10.05 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance		5.027 TFLOPS
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 8-pin
Length		9 inches (229 mm)
Recommended system power (PSU)		350 Watt
Width		Dual-slot
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.1
OpenCL	2.1	1.2
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7	6.4
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	System Shared	6 GB
Memory bandwidth	System Dependent	336.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	System Shared	192 bit
Memory clock speed	System Shared
Memory type	System Shared	GDDR6