NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 vs AMD Radeon R5 235 OEM

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 and AMD Radeon R5 235 OEM 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 NVIDIA GeForce GT 740

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 month(s) later
  • Around 28% higher core clock speed: 993 MHz vs 775 MHz
  • 5.1x more texture fill rate: 31.78 GTexel / s vs 6.2 GTexel / s
  • 2.4x more pipelines: 384 vs 160
  • 3.1x better floating-point performance: 762.6 gflops vs 248.0 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
  • 2.8x more memory clock speed: 5012 MHz vs 1800 MHz
  • 4.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1490 vs 336
  • 2.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 342 vs 164
  • 5.5x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 4332 vs 782
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 29 May 2014 vs 21 December 2013
Core clock speed 993 MHz vs 775 MHz
Texture fill rate 31.78 GTexel / s vs 6.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines 384 vs 160
Floating-point performance 762.6 gflops vs 248.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 40 nm
Memory clock speed 5012 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1490 vs 336
PassMark - G2D Mark 342 vs 164
Geekbench - OpenCL 4332 vs 782

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R5 235 OEM

  • Around 83% lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 64 Watt
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt vs 64 Watt
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 1 GB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 740
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R5 235 OEM

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1490
336
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
342
164
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
4332
782
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 AMD Radeon R5 235 OEM
PassMark - G3D Mark 1490 336
PassMark - G2D Mark 342 164
Geekbench - OpenCL 4332 782
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
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 513

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 AMD Radeon R5 235 OEM

Essentials

Architecture Kepler TeraScale 2
Code name GK107 Caicos
Launch date 29 May 2014 21 December 2013
Launch price (MSRP) $89
Place in performance rating 1277 1269
Price now $94.99
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 18.87
Design AMD Radeon R5 200 Series

Technical info

Core clock speed 993 MHz 775 MHz
Floating-point performance 762.6 gflops 248.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 384 160
Texture fill rate 31.78 GTexel / s 6.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 64 Watt 35 Watt
Transistor count 1,270 million 370 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI 1x DVI, 1x HDMI
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 145 mm 168 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 11
OpenGL 4.6 4.4

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 80.19 GB / s 14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 5012 MHz 1800 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity