AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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).

AMD Radeon RX Vega 7

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 7

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 17% higher pipelines: 448 vs 384
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
2.1x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 1069 vs 513
2.6x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 11203 vs 4271

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 Jan 2020 vs 29 May 2014
Pipelines	448 vs 384
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 28 nm
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1069 vs 513
Geekbench - OpenCL	11203 vs 4271

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 7
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 740

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

1069

513

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

11203

4271

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 7	NVIDIA GeForce GT 740
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1069	513
Geekbench - OpenCL	11203	4271
PassMark - G3D Mark		1469
PassMark - G2D Mark		349
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		11.994
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		291.627
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		1.023
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		15.139
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		23.651
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		1790
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1427
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		2153
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		1790
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		1427
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		2153

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX Vega 7	NVIDIA GeForce GT 740
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	Kepler
Code name	Vega Raven Ridge	GK107
Launch date	7 Jan 2020	29 May 2014
Place in performance rating	1317	1270
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$89
Price now		$94.99
Value for money (0-100)		18.87
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1600 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	448	384
Core clock speed		993 MHz
Floating-point performance		762.6 gflops
Texture fill rate		31.78 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		64 Watt
Transistor count		1,270 million
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL		4.6
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x16
Length		145 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		1 GB
Memory bandwidth		80.19 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		5012 MHz
Memory type		GDDR5