NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M vs AMD Radeon HD 6430M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M and AMD Radeon HD 6430M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • Around 69% higher core clock speed: 810 MHz vs 480 MHz
  • 4.1x more texture fill rate: 15.68 GTexel / s vs 3.84 GTexel / s
  • 2.4x more pipelines: 384 vs 160
  • 4.9x better floating-point performance: 752.6 gflops vs 153.6 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
  • Around 13% higher memory clock speed: 1802 MHz vs 1600 MHz
  • 4.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 796 vs 193
  • Around 40% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 148 vs 106
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 April 2013 vs 4 January 2011
Core clock speed 810 MHz vs 480 MHz
Texture fill rate 15.68 GTexel / s vs 3.84 GTexel / s
Pipelines 384 vs 160
Floating-point performance 752.6 gflops vs 153.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed 1802 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 796 vs 193
PassMark - G2D Mark 148 vs 106

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6430M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
796
193
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
148
106
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M AMD Radeon HD 6430M
PassMark - G3D Mark 796 193
PassMark - G2D Mark 148 106
Geekbench - OpenCL 3882
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 9.392
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 157.479
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.864
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 16.101
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 44.77
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1589
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3235
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3339
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1589
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3235
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3339
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 345

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M AMD Radeon HD 6430M

Essentials

Architecture Kepler TeraScale 2
Code name GK107 Seymour
Launch date 1 April 2013 4 January 2011
Place in performance rating 1312 1314
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 980 MHz
Core clock speed 810 MHz 480 MHz
Floating-point performance 752.6 gflops 153.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 384 160
Texture fill rate 15.68 GTexel / s 3.84 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 45 Watt
Transistor count 1,270 million 370 million

Video outputs and ports

7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support Up to 3840x2160
eDP 1.2 signal support Up to 3840x2160
HDCP content protection
HDMI
LVDS signal support Up to 1920x1200
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
VGA аnalog display support Up to 2048x1536

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 3.0
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size medium sized

API support

DirectX 12 API 11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 4.4

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 14.4 GB / s 12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 / 128 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 1802 MHz 1600 MHz
Memory type DDR3 DDR3
Shared memory 0 0
Standard memory configuration DDR3 / GDDR5

Technologies

3D Vision
3D Vision / 3DTV Play
Blu-Ray 3D Support
CUDA
Direct Compute
FXAA
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus