NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A and ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO 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

ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 63% higher core clock speed: 980 MHz vs 600 MHz
Around 63% higher texture fill rate: 15.68 GTexel / s vs 9.6 GTexel / s
Around 20% higher pipelines: 384 vs 320
Around 96% better floating-point performance: 752.6 gflops vs 384.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 80 nm
6.1x lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 200 Watt
4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
Around 13% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Around 6% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 668 vs 628

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	26 August 2013 vs 12 December 2007
Core clock speed	980 MHz vs 600 MHz
Texture fill rate	15.68 GTexel / s vs 9.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines	384 vs 320
Floating-point performance	752.6 gflops vs 384.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt vs 200 Watt
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	668 vs 628

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO

Around 32% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 397 vs 300

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	397 vs 300

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

300

397

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

668

628

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A	ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO
PassMark - G2D Mark	300	397
PassMark - G3D Mark	668	628

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A	ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler 2.0	TeraScale
Code name	GK208	R600
Launch date	26 August 2013	12 December 2007
Place in performance rating	507	379
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	980 MHz	600 MHz
Floating-point performance	752.6 gflops	384.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	384	320
Texture fill rate	15.68 GTexel / s	9.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt	200 Watt
Transistor count		720 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length		241 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s	118.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	512 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR4