AMD Radeon 740M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 740M and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile 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, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 740M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • Around 56% higher core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 960 MHz
  • 2.1x more boost clock speed: 2500 MHz vs 1200 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 12 nm
  • 5.3x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 80 Watt
  • Around 49% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 803 vs 540
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 4 Jan 2023 vs 29 January 2019
Core clock speed 1500 MHz vs 960 MHz
Boost clock speed 2500 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm vs 12 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt vs 80 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 803 vs 540

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile

  • 7.5x more pipelines: 1920 vs 256
  • 3.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 11355 vs 3188
Specifications (specs)
Pipelines 1920 vs 256
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 11355 vs 3188

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 740M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
803
540
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
3188
11355
Name AMD Radeon 740M NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile
PassMark - G2D Mark 803 540
PassMark - G3D Mark 3188 11355
Geekbench - OpenCL 9881
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 5906
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 17150
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 17150
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3720
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3720
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3358
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3358

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon 740M NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 3.0 Turing
Code name Phoenix TU106B
Launch date 4 Jan 2023 29 January 2019
Place in performance rating 217 214
Price now $349.99
Type Laptop
Value for money (0-100) 62.74

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2500 MHz 1200 MHz
Compute units 4
Core clock speed 1500 MHz 960 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm 12 nm
Pipelines 256 1920
Pixel fill rate 20.00 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 40.00 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt 80 Watt
Transistor count 25390 million 10,800 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP
Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None

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 192 Bit
Memory clock speed System Shared 14000 MHz
Memory type System Shared GDDR6