AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT 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, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • Around 21% higher core clock speed: 1187 MHz vs 980 MHz
  • 10758.9x more texture fill rate: 168.7 GTexel/s vs 15.68 GTexel / s
  • 4x more pipelines: 1536 vs 384
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2 GB
Launch date 4 Aug 2020 vs 26 August 2013
Core clock speed 1187 MHz vs 980 MHz
Texture fill rate 168.7 GTexel/s vs 15.68 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1536 vs 384
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 2 GB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A

  • 3.8x lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 125 Watt
  • Around 3% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 33 Watt vs 125 Watt
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz vs 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A

Name AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A
Geekbench - OpenCL 42817
PassMark - G2D Mark 300
PassMark - G3D Mark 668

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 1.0 Kepler 2.0
Code name Navi 14 GK208
Launch date 4 Aug 2020 26 August 2013
Place in performance rating 507 510
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1757 MHz
Compute units 24
Core clock speed 1187 MHz 980 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 337.3 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 10.80 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 5.398 TFLOPS
Pipelines 1536 384
Pixel fill rate 56.22 GPixel/s
Render output units 32
Texture fill rate 168.7 GTexel/s 15.68 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 125 Watt 33 Watt
Transistor count 6400 million
Floating-point performance 752.6 gflops

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x8
Recommended system power (PSU) 350 Watt
Supplementary power connectors None
Width IGP

API support

DirectX 12.1 12.0 (11_0)
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 224.0 GB/s 14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective) 1800 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 DDR3