AMD Radeon 740M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 740M and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q 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.

AMD Radeon 740M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 740M

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 7 month(s) later
2.1x more core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 712 MHz
2.4x more boost clock speed: 2500 MHz vs 1057 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 8 nm
2.3x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 35 Watt

Launch date	4 Jan 2023 vs 11 May 2021
Core clock speed	1500 MHz vs 712 MHz
Boost clock speed	2500 MHz vs 1057 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 8 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 35 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q

Around 69% higher texture fill rate: 67.65 GTexel/s vs 40.00 GTexel/s
8x more pipelines: 2048 vs 256

Texture fill rate	67.65 GTexel/s vs 40.00 GTexel/s
Pipelines	2048 vs 256

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 740M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q

Name	AMD Radeon 740M	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q
PassMark - G2D Mark	811
PassMark - G3D Mark	3209
Geekbench - OpenCL	10125

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 740M	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 3.0	Ampere
Code name	Phoenix	GA107
Launch date	4 Jan 2023	11 May 2021
Place in performance rating	236	not rated
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2500 MHz	1057 MHz
Compute units	4
Core clock speed	1500 MHz	712 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm	8 nm
Pipelines	256	2048
Pixel fill rate	20.00 GPixel/s	33.82 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	40.00 GTexel/s	67.65 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	35 Watt
Transistor count	25390 million
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance		67.65 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance		4.329 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance		4.329 TFLOPS
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	Portable Device Dependent
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL	2.1	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	System Shared	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	System Dependent	176.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	System Shared	128 bit
Memory clock speed	System Shared	1375 MHz, 11 Gbps effective
Memory type	System Shared	GDDR6