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.

 

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 510 512
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