NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A vs AMD FirePro W7000
Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A and AMD FirePro W7000 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D 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).
Differences
Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A
- Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 2 month(s) later
- Around 3% higher core clock speed: 980 MHz vs 950 MHz
- 10.6x lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 350 Watt
Launch date | 26 August 2013 vs 13 June 2012 |
Core clock speed | 980 MHz vs 950 MHz |
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 33 Watt vs 350 Watt |
Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro W7000
- 4.8x more texture fill rate: 76 GTexel / s vs 15.68 GTexel / s
- 3.3x more pipelines: 1280 vs 384
- 3.2x better floating-point performance: 2,432 gflops vs 752.6 gflops
- 2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
- 2.7x more memory clock speed: 4800 MHz vs 1800 MHz
- Around 82% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 546 vs 300
- 6.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4288 vs 668
Specifications (specs) | |
Texture fill rate | 76 GTexel / s vs 15.68 GTexel / s |
Pipelines | 1280 vs 384 |
Floating-point performance | 2,432 gflops vs 752.6 gflops |
Maximum memory size | 4 GB vs 2 GB |
Memory clock speed | 4800 MHz vs 1800 MHz |
Benchmarks | |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 546 vs 300 |
PassMark - G3D Mark | 4288 vs 668 |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A
GPU 2: AMD FirePro W7000
PassMark - G2D Mark |
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PassMark - G3D Mark |
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Name | NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A | AMD FirePro W7000 |
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PassMark - G2D Mark | 300 | 546 |
PassMark - G3D Mark | 668 | 4288 |
Geekbench - OpenCL | 17771 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) | 52.467 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) | 1148.367 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) | 4.886 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) | 85.472 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) | 268.49 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) | 6475 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) | 3714 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) | 3359 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) | 6475 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) | 3714 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) | 3359 |
Compare specifications (specs)
NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A | AMD FirePro W7000 | |
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Essentials |
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Architecture | Kepler 2.0 | GCN 1.0 |
Code name | GK208 | Pitcairn |
Launch date | 26 August 2013 | 13 June 2012 |
Place in performance rating | 509 | 510 |
Type | Desktop | Workstation |
Launch price (MSRP) | $899 | |
Technical info |
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Core clock speed | 980 MHz | 950 MHz |
Floating-point performance | 752.6 gflops | 2,432 gflops |
Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | 28 nm |
Pipelines | 384 | 1280 |
Texture fill rate | 15.68 GTexel / s | 76 GTexel / s |
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 33 Watt | 350 Watt |
Transistor count | 2,800 million | |
Video outputs and ports |
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Display Connectors | No outputs | 4x DisplayPort |
DisplayPort count | 4 | |
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StereoOutput3D | ||
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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Interface | PCIe 3.0 x8 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
Bus support | PCIe 3.0 | |
Form factor | Full Height / Full Length | |
Length | 242 mm | |
Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin | |
API support |
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DirectX | 12.0 (11_0) | 12.0 (11_1) |
OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.5 |
Memory |
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Maximum RAM amount | 2 GB | 4 GB |
Memory bandwidth | 14.4 GB / s | 153.6 GB / s |
Memory bus width | 64 Bit | 256 Bit |
Memory clock speed | 1800 MHz | 4800 MHz |
Memory type | DDR3 | GDDR5 |