NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A vs AMD Radeon Sky 500

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A and AMD Radeon Sky 500 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).

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A

AMD Radeon Sky 500

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 month(s) later
Around 3% higher core clock speed: 980 MHz vs 950 MHz
4.5x lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 150 Watt

Launch date	26 August 2013 vs 27 March 2013
Core clock speed	980 MHz vs 950 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt vs 150 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Sky 500

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 84% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 551 vs 300
7.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4764 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	551 vs 300
PassMark - G3D Mark	4764 vs 668

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A
GPU 2: AMD Radeon Sky 500

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

300

551

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

668

4764

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A	AMD Radeon Sky 500
PassMark - G2D Mark	300	551
PassMark - G3D Mark	668	4764
Geekbench - OpenCL		74902
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		54.669
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1096.68
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		5.352
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		89.633
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		247.642
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		3585
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		2116
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		5116
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		3585
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		2116
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		5116

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A	AMD Radeon Sky 500
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler 2.0	GCN 1.0
Code name	GK208	Pitcairn
Launch date	26 August 2013	27 March 2013
Place in performance rating	503	510
Type	Desktop	Desktop
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	150 Watt
Transistor count		2,800 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort count		1
Dual-link DVI support
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	154 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	4800 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR5