NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M vs ATI Mobility Radeon 9800

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M and ATI Mobility Radeon 9800 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 8 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • 2.3x more core clock speed: 810 MHz vs 350 MHz
  • 2.8x more boost clock speed: 980 MHz vs 350 MHz
  • 5.6x more texture fill rate: 15.68 GTexel / s vs 2.8 GTexel / s
  • 48x more pipelines: 384 vs 8
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 130 nm
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 256 MB
  • 3x more memory clock speed: 1802 MHz vs 600 MHz
  • 17.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 796 vs 46
  • Around 35% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 148 vs 110
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 April 2013 vs 1 July 2004
Core clock speed 810 MHz vs 350 MHz
Boost clock speed 980 MHz vs 350 MHz
Texture fill rate 15.68 GTexel / s vs 2.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines 384 vs 8
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed 1802 MHz vs 600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 796 vs 46
PassMark - G2D Mark 148 vs 110

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon 9800

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
796
46
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
148
110
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M ATI Mobility Radeon 9800
PassMark - G3D Mark 796 46
PassMark - G2D Mark 148 110
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 ATI Mobility Radeon 9800

Essentials

Architecture Kepler R400
Code name GK107 M18
Launch date 1 April 2013 1 July 2004
Place in performance rating 1312 1315
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 980 MHz 350 MHz
Core clock speed 810 MHz 350 MHz
Floating-point performance 752.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 130 nm
Pipelines 384 8
Texture fill rate 15.68 GTexel / s 2.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 45 Watt
Transistor count 1,270 million 160 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 AGP 8x
Laptop size medium sized large

API support

DirectX 12 API 9.0
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 14.4 GB / s 19.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 / 128 Bit 300 Bit
Memory clock speed 1802 MHz 600 MHz
Memory type DDR3 256
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
Powerplay