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
GPU 1
GPU 2
300
546
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
668
4288
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A AMD FirePro W7000
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

Essentials

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

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

Display Connectors No outputs 4x DisplayPort
DisplayPort count 4
Dual-link DVI support
StereoOutput3D

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

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

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.5

Memory

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