AMD Radeon 740M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 740M and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 740M

  • 19x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 285 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt vs 285 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • Around 54% higher core clock speed: 2310 MHz vs 1500 MHz
  • Around 4% higher boost clock speed: 2610 MHz vs 2500 MHz
  • 12x more texture fill rate: 480.2 GTexel/s vs 40.00 GTexel/s
  • 23x more pipelines: 5888 vs 256
  • Around 44% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 1166 vs 811
  • 8.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 26959 vs 3209
  • 16.6x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 168049 vs 10125
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 2023 vs 4 Jan 2023
Core clock speed 2310 MHz vs 1500 MHz
Boost clock speed 2610 MHz vs 2500 MHz
Texture fill rate 480.2 GTexel/s vs 40.00 GTexel/s
Pipelines 5888 vs 256
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 1166 vs 811
PassMark - G3D Mark 26959 vs 3209
Geekbench - OpenCL 168049 vs 10125

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 740M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
811
1166
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
3209
26959
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
10125
168049
Name AMD Radeon 740M NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070
PassMark - G2D Mark 811 1166
PassMark - G3D Mark 3209 26959
Geekbench - OpenCL 10125 168049
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 3854
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 417.133
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 55.476
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 245.639
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 2459.317

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon 740M NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 3.0 Ada Lovelace
Code name Phoenix AD104
Launch date 4 Jan 2023 2023
Place in performance rating 236 35

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2500 MHz 2610 MHz
Compute units 4
Core clock speed 1500 MHz 2310 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm 4 nm
Pipelines 256 5888
Pixel fill rate 20.00 GPixel/s 167.0 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 40.00 GTexel/s 480.2 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt 285 Watt
Transistor count 25390 million 35800 million
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 480.2 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 30.74 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 30.74 TFLOPS

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP Dual-slot
Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 12-pin
Height 61 mm, 2.4 inches
Length 336 mm, 13.2 inches
Recommended system power (PSU) 600 Watt
Width 140 mm, 5.5 inches

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 12 GB
Memory bandwidth System Dependent 504.2 GB/s
Memory bus width System Shared 192 bit
Memory clock speed System Shared 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective
Memory type System Shared GDDR6X