Radeon RX 550 vs GeForce GT 740

Radeon RX 550
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Apr 2017
Radeon RX 550
GeForce GT 740
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 May 2014
GeForce GT 740

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 550

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 FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX 550

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 550

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 550GeForce GT 740
GPU NamePolaris 12 (Baffin XT)vsGK107 (GK107-425-A2)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size0 mm²vs118 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs1,270 million
Shaders640vs384
Compute Units10vs2
Core clock1125 MHzvs993 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs40vs32

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 550GeForce GT 740
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
vs1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 550GeForce GT 740
TDP0 wattsvs64 watts
Release Date1 Apr 2017vs29 May 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 550
    20.83 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 740
    7.94 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 550
    52.10 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 740
    31.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 550
    112.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 740
    80.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 550
    1666.60 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 740
    762.60 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better