GeForce GT 740 vs Radeon R7 240

GeForce GT 740
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 May 2014
GeForce GT 740
Radeon R7 240
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Oct 2013
Radeon R7 240

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 740

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R7 240

Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GT 740

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 740

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 740Radeon R7 240
GPU NameGK107 (GK107-425-A2)vsOland (Oland PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size118 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors1,270 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders384vs320
Compute Units2vs5
Core clock993 MHzvs730 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs32vs20

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 740Radeon R7 240
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 740Radeon R7 240
TDP64 wattsvs30 watts
Release Date29 May 2014vs8 Oct 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 740
    7.94 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 240
    5.84 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 740
    31.80 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 240
    14.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 740
    80.20 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 240
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 740
    762.60 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 240
    467.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better