GeForce GT 740 vs Radeon R7 360

GeForce GT 740
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 May 2014
GeForce GT 740
Radeon R7 360
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2015
Radeon R7 360

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GT 740
    100%
  • Radeon R7 360
    138%

Relative performance

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 360

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 38% higher average synthetic performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R7 360

HWBench recommends Radeon R7 360

The Radeon R7 360 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 740Radeon R7 360
GPU NameGK107 (GK107-425-A2)vsTobago (Tobago PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size118 mm²vs160 mm²
Transistors1,270 millionvs2,080 million
Shaders384vs768
Compute Units2vs12
Core clock993 MHzvs1050 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs32vs48

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 740Radeon R7 360
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 740Radeon R7 360
TDP64 wattsvs100 watts
Release Date29 May 2014vs18 Jun 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 740
    7.94 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 360
    16.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 740
    31.80 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 360
    50.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 740
    80.20 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 360
    96.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 740
    762.60 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 360
    1612.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GT 740
    4610
  • Radeon R7 360
    6400

Points (higher is better)