Radeon HD 5870 vs GeForce GT 740 OEM
Summary
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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GT 740 OEM
The GeForce GT 740 OEM is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 5870 | | GeForce GT 740 OEM | |
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GPU Name | Cypress (Cypress XT) | vs | GK106 () |
Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 28 nm |
Die Size | 334 mm² | vs | 221 mm² |
Transistors | 2,154 million | vs | 2,540 million |
Shaders | 1600 | vs | 384 |
Compute Units | 20 | vs | 2 |
Core clock | 850 MHz | vs | 1006 MHz |
ROPs | 32 | vs | 16 |
TMUs | 80 | vs | 32 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 5870 | | GeForce GT 740 OEM | |
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Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 128 bit |
Memory Speed | 1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective | vs | 1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective |
Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 5870 | | GeForce GT 740 OEM | |
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TDP | 188 watts | vs | 65 watts |
Release Date | 23 Sep 2009 | vs | 14 Apr 2015 |
Radeon HD 5870
27.20 GP/s
GeForce GT 740 OEM
8.05 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 5870
68.00 GT/s
GeForce GT 740 OEM
32.20 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 5870
154.00 GB/s
GeForce GT 740 OEM
80.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 5870
2720.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GT 740 OEM
772.60 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
Radeon HD 5870
4290
GeForce GT 740 OEM
4610
Points (higher is better)