GeForce GT 740 vs Radeon R7 350 OEM

GeForce GT 740
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 May 2014
GeForce GT 740
Radeon R7 350 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 May 2015
Radeon R7 350 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 740

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R7 350 OEM

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R7 350 OEM

HWBench recommends Radeon R7 350 OEM

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 740Radeon R7 350 OEM
GPU NameGK107 (GK107-425-A2)vsOland (Oland XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size118 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors1,270 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders384vs384
Compute Units2vs6
Core clock993 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs32vs24

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 740Radeon R7 350 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
vs1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 740Radeon R7 350 OEM
TDP64 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date29 May 2014vs5 May 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 740
    7.94 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 350 OEM
    8.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 740
    31.80 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 350 OEM
    24.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 740
    80.20 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 350 OEM
    72.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 740
    762.60 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 350 OEM
    768.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better