NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A vs ATI Radeon X1950 PRO

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A and ATI Radeon X1950 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 X1950 PRO

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 70% higher core clock speed: 980 MHz vs 575 MHz
2.3x more texture fill rate: 15.68 GTexel / s vs 6.9 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 80 nm
2x lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 66 Watt
8x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 256 MB
Around 30% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1380 MHz
5.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 668 vs 113

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	26 August 2013 vs 1 October 2006
Core clock speed	980 MHz vs 575 MHz
Texture fill rate	15.68 GTexel / s vs 6.9 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt vs 66 Watt
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 1380 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	668 vs 113

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X1950 PRO

Around 6% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 318 vs 300

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	318 vs 300

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X1950 PRO

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

300

318

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

668

113

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A	ATI Radeon X1950 PRO
PassMark - G2D Mark	300	318
PassMark - G3D Mark	668	113

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A	ATI Radeon X1950 PRO
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler 2.0	R500
Code name	GK208	RV570
Launch date	26 August 2013	1 October 2006
Place in performance rating	507	508
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	980 MHz	575 MHz
Floating-point performance	752.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	384
Texture fill rate	15.68 GTexel / s	6.9 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt	66 Watt
Transistor count		330 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
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.6	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s	44.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	1380 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR3