AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory, Technologies. 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 740M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 7

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 63% higher boost clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 980 MHz
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
3.1x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 1069 vs 345
2.9x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 11203 vs 3866

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 Jan 2020 vs 1 April 2013
Boost clock speed	1600 MHz vs 980 MHz
Pipelines	448 vs 384
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 28 nm
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1069 vs 345
Geekbench - OpenCL	11203 vs 3866

Compare benchmarks

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

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

1069

345

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

11203

3866

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 7	NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1069	345
Geekbench - OpenCL	11203	3866
PassMark - G3D Mark		793
PassMark - G2D Mark		149
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		9.392
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		157.479
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		0.864
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		16.101
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		44.77
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		1589
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3235
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3339
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		1589
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3235
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3339

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX Vega 7	NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	Kepler
Code name	Vega Raven Ridge	GK107
Launch date	7 Jan 2020	1 April 2013
Place in performance rating	1317	1301
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1600 MHz	980 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	448	384
Core clock speed		810 MHz
Floating-point performance		752.6 gflops
Texture fill rate		15.68 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		45 Watt
Transistor count		1,270 million
API support
DirectX	12.1	12 API
OpenCL		1.1
OpenGL		4.5
Video outputs and ports
7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
Display Connectors		No outputs
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support		Up to 3840x2160
eDP 1.2 signal support		Up to 3840x2160
HDCP content protection
HDMI
LVDS signal support		Up to 1920x1200
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
VGA аnalog display support		Up to 2048x1536
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support		PCI Express 3.0
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size		medium sized
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		2 GB
Memory bandwidth		14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width		64 / 128 Bit
Memory clock speed		1802 MHz
Memory type		DDR3
Shared memory		0
Standard memory configuration		DDR3 / GDDR5
Technologies
3D Vision
3D Vision / 3DTV Play
Blu-Ray 3D Support
CUDA
Direct Compute
FXAA
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus