GeForce GT 740 vs Radeon HD 6790
Summary
GeForce GT 740
149%
Radeon HD 6790
100%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider GeForce GT 740 |
| 86 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 6790 . |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Around 49% higher average synthetic performance. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Supports G-Sync |
| Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6790 |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GT 740
The GeForce GT 740 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GT 740 | | Radeon HD 6790 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GK107 (GK107-425-A2) | vs | Barts (Barts LE) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 118 mm² | vs | 255 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,270 million | vs | 1,700 million |
| Shaders | 384 | vs | 800 |
| Compute Units | 2 | vs | 10 |
| Core clock | 993 MHz | vs | 840 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 16 |
| TMUs | 32 | vs | 40 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GT 740 | | Radeon HD 6790 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective | vs | 1050 MHz
4200 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GT 740 | | Radeon HD 6790 | |
|---|
| TDP | 64 watts | vs | 150 watts |
| Release Date | 29 May 2014 | vs | 4 Apr 2011 |
GeForce GT 740
7.94 GP/s
Radeon HD 6790
13.40 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GT 740
31.80 GT/s
Radeon HD 6790
33.60 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GT 740
80.20 GB/s
Radeon HD 6790
134.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GT 740
762.60 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 6790
1344.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
GeForce GT 740
4610
Radeon HD 6790
3090
Points (higher is better)