AMD Radeon E9550 MXM vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon E9550 MXM and NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A 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: 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), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

AMD Radeon E9550 MXM

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon E9550 MXM

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 14% higher core clock speed: 1120 MHz vs 980 MHz
11.6x more texture fill rate: 182.3 GTexel / s vs 15.68 GTexel / s
6x more pipelines: 2304 vs 384
7.8x better floating-point performance: 5,834 gflops vs 752.6 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2 GB
2.8x more memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 1800 MHz

Launch date	27 September 2016 vs 26 August 2013
Core clock speed	1120 MHz vs 980 MHz
Texture fill rate	182.3 GTexel / s vs 15.68 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2304 vs 384
Floating-point performance	5,834 gflops vs 752.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz vs 1800 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A

2.9x lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 95 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt vs 95 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon E9550 MXM
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A

Name	AMD Radeon E9550 MXM	NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A
Geekbench - OpenCL	36624
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	112.64
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1474.586
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	9.473
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	96.618
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	507.291
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	6622
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3597
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3208
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	6622
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3597
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3208
PassMark - G2D Mark		300
PassMark - G3D Mark		668

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon E9550 MXM	NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	Kepler 2.0
Code name	Ellesmere	GK208
Launch date	27 September 2016	26 August 2013
Place in performance rating	501	503
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1266 MHz
Core clock speed	1120 MHz	980 MHz
Floating-point performance	5,834 gflops	752.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	2304	384
Texture fill rate	182.3 GTexel / s	15.68 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	95 Watt	33 Watt
Transistor count	5,700 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	160.0 GB / s	14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3