Radeon HD 5870 vs GeForce GT 740 OEM

Radeon HD 5870
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 23 Sep 2009
Radeon HD 5870
GeForce GT 740 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 14 Apr 2015
GeForce GT 740 OEM
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Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 5870
    100%
  • GeForce GT 740 OEM
    107%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5870

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 740 OEM

123 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 5870 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 7% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GT 740 OEM

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 740 OEM

The GeForce GT 740 OEM is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5870GeForce GT 740 OEM
GPU NameCypress (Cypress XT)vsGK106 ()
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size334 mm²vs221 mm²
Transistors2,154 millionvs2,540 million
Shaders1600vs384
Compute Units20vs2
Core clock850 MHzvs1006 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs80vs32

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5870GeForce GT 740 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
vs1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5870GeForce GT 740 OEM
TDP188 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date23 Sep 2009vs14 Apr 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5870
    27.20 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 740 OEM
    8.05 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5870
    68.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 740 OEM
    32.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5870
    154.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 740 OEM
    80.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5870
    2720.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 740 OEM
    772.60 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 5870
    4290
  • GeForce GT 740 OEM
    4610

Points (higher is better)