GeForce GT 740 vs Radeon HD 6770

GeForce GT 740
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 May 2014
GeForce GT 740
Radeon HD 6770
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Jan 2011
Radeon HD 6770

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GT 740
    180%
  • Radeon HD 6770
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 740

44 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 6770 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 80% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 6770

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GT 740

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 740

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


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 740Radeon HD 6770
GPU NameGK107 (GK107-425-A2)vsJuniper (Juniper XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs40 nm
Die Size118 mm²vs166 mm²
Transistors1,270 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders384vs800
Compute Units2vs10
Core clock993 MHzvs850 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs32vs40

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 740Radeon HD 6770
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
vs1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 740Radeon HD 6770
TDP64 wattsvs108 watts
Release Date29 May 2014vs21 Jan 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 740
    7.94 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6770
    13.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 740
    31.80 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6770
    34.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 740
    80.20 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6770
    76.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 740
    762.60 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6770
    1360.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GT 740
    4610
  • Radeon HD 6770
    2550

Points (higher is better)