GeForce GT 740 vs Radeon HD 7670 OEM

GeForce GT 740
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 May 2014
GeForce GT 740
Radeon HD 7670 OEM
Memory: 512Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Jan 2012
Radeon HD 7670 OEM

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GT 740
    303%
  • Radeon HD 7670 OEM
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 740

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 203% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 7670 OEM

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 7670 OEM
GPU NameGK107 (GK107-425-A2)vsTurks (Turks XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs40 nm
Die Size118 mm²vs118 mm²
Transistors1,270 millionvs716 million
Shaders384vs480
Compute Units2vs6
Core clock993 MHzvs800 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs32vs24

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 740Radeon HD 7670 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 740Radeon HD 7670 OEM
TDP64 wattsvs66 watts
Release Date29 May 2014vs5 Jan 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 740
    7.94 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7670 OEM
    6.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 740
    31.80 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7670 OEM
    19.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 740
    80.20 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7670 OEM
    64.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 740
    762.60 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7670 OEM
    768.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GT 740
    4610
  • Radeon HD 7670 OEM
    1520

Points (higher is better)