AMD Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition and NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

AMD Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition

3.6x more texture fill rate: 116.4 GTexel / s vs 32.19 GTexel / s
5.3x more pipelines: 2048 vs 384
4.8x better floating-point performance: 3,723 gflops vs 772.6 gflops
4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
Around 9% higher memory clock speed: 5460 MHz vs 5012 MHz

Texture fill rate	116.4 GTexel / s vs 32.19 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2048 vs 384
Floating-point performance	3,723 gflops vs 772.6 gflops
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	5460 MHz vs 5012 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM

Around 16% higher core clock speed: 1050 MHz vs 909 MHz
3.8x lower typical power consumption: 65 Watt vs 250 Watt

Core clock speed	1050 MHz vs 909 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt vs 250 Watt

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition	NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 3.0	Kepler
Code name	Amethyst	GK106
Launch date	5 May 2015	14 April 2015
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	909 MHz	1050 MHz
Floating-point performance	3,723 gflops	772.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	2048	384
Texture fill rate	116.4 GTexel / s	32.19 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt	65 Watt
Transistor count	5,000 million	2,540 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	174.7 GB / s	80.19 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	5460 MHz	5012 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5