AMD Radeon 740M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 740M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop) 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, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon 740M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 740M

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 3 month(s) later
2.1x more boost clock speed: 2500 MHz vs 1216 MHz
277.8x more texture fill rate: 40.00 GTexel/s vs 144 billion / sec
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 28 nm
13.3x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 100-200 Watt

Launch date	4 Jan 2023 vs 21 September 2015
Boost clock speed	2500 MHz vs 1216 MHz
Texture fill rate	40.00 GTexel/s vs 144 billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 100-200 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)

8x more pipelines: 2048 vs 256

Pipelines	2048 vs 256

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 740M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)

Name	AMD Radeon 740M	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)
PassMark - G2D Mark	811
PassMark - G3D Mark	3209
Geekbench - OpenCL	10125
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		4053

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 740M	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 3.0	Maxwell 2.0
Code name	Phoenix	GM204
Launch date	4 Jan 2023	21 September 2015
Place in performance rating	236	304
Launch price (MSRP)		$395.82
Price now		$605.06
Type		Laptop
Value for money (0-100)		20.91
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2500 MHz	1216 MHz
Compute units	4
Core clock speed	1500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	256	2048
Pixel fill rate	20.00 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	40.00 GTexel/s	144 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	100-200 Watt
Transistor count	25390 million	5,200 million
CUDA cores		2048
Floating-point performance		4,358 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
Audio input for HDMI		Internal
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support		1
G-SYNC support
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
VGA аnalog display support		1
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors	None
Bus support		PCI Express 3.0
Laptop size		large
SLI options		1
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL	2.1	1.2
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	System Shared	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	System Dependent	224 GB / s
Memory bus width	System Shared	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	System Shared	7.0 GB/s
Memory type	System Shared	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
3D Vision
Adaptive Vertical Sync
BatteryBoost
CUDA
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI
Surround