NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A vs AMD FireStream 9170

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A and AMD FireStream 9170 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.

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A

AMD FireStream 9170

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 23% higher core clock speed: 980 MHz vs 800 MHz
Around 23% higher texture fill rate: 15.68 GTexel / s vs 12.8 GTexel / s
Around 20% higher pipelines: 384 vs 320
Around 47% better floating-point performance: 752.6 gflops vs 512.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
3.2x lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 105 Watt
Around 13% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 668 vs 647

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	26 August 2013 vs 8 November 2007
Core clock speed	980 MHz vs 800 MHz
Texture fill rate	15.68 GTexel / s vs 12.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines	384 vs 320
Floating-point performance	752.6 gflops vs 512.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt vs 105 Watt
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	668 vs 647

Reasons to consider the AMD FireStream 9170

Around 64% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 493 vs 300

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	493 vs 300

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A
GPU 2: AMD FireStream 9170

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

300

493

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

668

647

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A	AMD FireStream 9170
PassMark - G2D Mark	300	493
PassMark - G3D Mark	668	647

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A	AMD FireStream 9170
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler 2.0	TeraScale
Code name	GK208	RV670
Launch date	26 August 2013	8 November 2007
Place in performance rating	507	289
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	980 MHz	800 MHz
Floating-point performance	752.6 gflops	512.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	384	320
Texture fill rate	15.68 GTexel / s	12.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt	105 Watt
Transistor count		666 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s	51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR3