AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM 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: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL.

AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 19% higher texture fill rate: 18.72 GTexel / s vs 15.68 GTexel / s
Around 20% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 359 vs 300
Around 50% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1000 vs 668

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	5 May 2015 vs 26 August 2013
Texture fill rate	18.72 GTexel / s vs 15.68 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	359 vs 300
PassMark - G3D Mark	1000 vs 668

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A

Around 34% higher core clock speed: 980 MHz vs 730 MHz
Around 26% better floating-point performance: 752.6 gflops vs 599.0 gflops
Around 52% lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 50 Watt

Core clock speed	980 MHz vs 730 MHz
Floating-point performance	752.6 gflops vs 599.0 gflops
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt vs 50 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

359

300

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1000

668

Name	AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM	NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A
PassMark - G2D Mark	359	300
PassMark - G3D Mark	1000	668
Geekbench - OpenCL	24076

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM	NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Kepler 2.0
Code name	Oland	GK208
Launch date	5 May 2015	26 August 2013
Place in performance rating	509	510
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	780 MHz
Core clock speed	730 MHz	980 MHz
Floating-point performance	599.0 gflops	752.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	384	384
Texture fill rate	18.72 GTexel / s	15.68 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	33 Watt
Transistor count	1,040 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s	14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	DDR3