AMD Radeon Pro Duo vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro Duo 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, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro Duo

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • 143.9x more texture fill rate: 2x 256.0 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 15.68 GTexel / s
  • 21.3x more pipelines: 2x 4096 vs 384
  • 21.8x better floating-point performance: 2x 8,192 gflops vs 752.6 gflops
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2 GB
  • 12.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 8137 vs 668
  • 2.5x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 745 vs 300
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 26 April 2016 vs 26 August 2013
Texture fill rate 2x 256.0 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 15.68 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2x 4096 vs 384
Floating-point performance 2x 8,192 gflops vs 752.6 gflops
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 2 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 8137 vs 668
PassMark - G2D Mark 745 vs 300

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A

  • 10.6x lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 350 Watt
  • 3.6x more memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 500 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 33 Watt vs 350 Watt
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz vs 500 MHz

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
8137
668
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
745
300
Name AMD Radeon Pro Duo NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A
PassMark - G3D Mark 8137 668
PassMark - G2D Mark 745 300
Geekbench - OpenCL 53806
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 141.474
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 3621.344
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 13.132
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 112.973
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 799.933
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 10141
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3713
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 38251
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 10141
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3713
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 38251
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro Duo NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A

Essentials

Architecture GCN 3.0 Kepler 2.0
Code name Capsaicin GK208
Design reference
Launch date 26 April 2016 26 August 2013
Launch price (MSRP) $1,499
Place in performance rating 190 505
Price now $849
Type Workstation Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 17.05

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1000 MHz
Compute units 128
Floating-point performance 2x 8,192 gflops 752.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 2x 4096 384
Texture fill rate 2x 256.0 GTexel / s billion / sec 15.68 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 350 Watt 33 Watt
Transistor count 8,900 million
Core clock speed 980 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort No outputs
DisplayPort support
Eyefinity
HDMI
Number of Eyefinity displays 6

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCIe 3.0
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x8
Length 277 mm
Supplementary power connectors 3x 8-pin

API support

DirectX DirectX® 12 12.0 (11_0)
Mantle
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.5 4.6
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 512 GB / s 14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 2x 4096 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 500 MHz 1800 MHz
Memory type High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) DDR3

Technologies

AppAcceleration
CrossFire
Enduro
FreeSync
FRTC
HD3D
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
ZeroCore