AMD Radeon RX 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 550 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 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 RX 550

• Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 10 month(s) later
• Around 11% higher core clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 993 MHz
• Around 19% higher texture fill rate: 37.86 GTexel / s vs 31.78 GTexel / s
• Around 33% higher pipelines: 512 vs 384
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
• Around 28% lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 64 Watt
• 4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
• Around 40% higher memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 5012 MHz
• Around 83% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2690 vs 1469
• Around 36% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 476 vs 349
• 2.7x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 11610 vs 4271
• 2.8x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 33.507 vs 11.994
• 3.6x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 1037.305 vs 291.627
• 3x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 3.064 vs 1.023
• 3.5x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 52.533 vs 15.139
• 6x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 140.911 vs 23.651
• 2.5x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 4485 vs 1790
• 2.5x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 4485 vs 1790

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 740

• 635.5x better floating-point performance: 762.6 gflops vs 1.2 TFLOPs
• Around 52% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 1427 vs 940
• Around 52% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 1427 vs 940
• 4x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 513 vs 127

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 550
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 740

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	2690 1469
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	476 349
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	11610 4271
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	33.507 11.994
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1037.305 291.627
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3.064 1.023
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	52.533 15.139
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	140.911 23.651
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	4485 1790
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	940 1427
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2158 2153
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	4485 1790
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	940 1427
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2158 2153
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	GPU 1 GPU 2	127 513

Compare specifications (specs)