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.

 

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
Specifications (specs)
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
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 808 vs 806

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: 12750 vs 3215
  • 6.3x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 62663 vs 9954
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 - G3D Mark 12750 vs 3215
Geekbench - OpenCL 62663 vs 9954

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
808
806
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
3215
12750
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
9954
62663
Name AMD Radeon 740M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
PassMark - G2D Mark 808 806
PassMark - G3D Mark 3215 12750
Geekbench - OpenCL 9954 62663
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