AMD Radeon 740M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 740M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 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 Ti

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 740M

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 41% higher boost clock speed: 2500 MHz vs 1770 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 12 nm
8x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 120 Watt

Launch date	4 Jan 2023 vs 22 February 2019
Boost clock speed	2500 MHz vs 1770 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 12 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 120 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 12914 vs 3214
6.1x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 61063 vs 9954

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	809 vs 807
PassMark - G3D Mark	12914 vs 3214
Geekbench - OpenCL	61063 vs 9954

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

807

809

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

3214

12914

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

9954

61063

Name	AMD Radeon 740M	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
PassMark - G2D Mark	807	809
PassMark - G3D Mark	3214	12914
Geekbench - OpenCL	9954	61063
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		208.608
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		2573.643
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		16.447
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		145.886
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		926.614
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		16952
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3355
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		16952
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3355
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		6273

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 740M	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 3.0	Turing
Code name	Phoenix	TU116
Launch date	4 Jan 2023	22 February 2019
Place in performance rating	217	214
Launch price (MSRP)		$279
Price now		$279.99
Type		Desktop
Value for money (0-100)		67.32
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2500 MHz	1770 MHz
Compute units	4
Core clock speed	1500 MHz	1500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm	12 nm
Pipelines	256
Pixel fill rate	20.00 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	40.00 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	120 Watt
Transistor count	25390 million	6,600 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort count		1
DisplayPort support
HDMI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 8-pin
Length		229 mm
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.0
OpenCL	2.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	System Shared
Memory bandwidth	System Dependent
Memory bus width	System Shared
Memory clock speed	System Shared	12000 MHz
Memory type	System Shared