GeForce GT 740 vs Radeon R9 270
Summary
GeForce GT 740
100%
Radeon R9 270
169%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider GeForce GT 740 |
| 86 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 270 . |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 R9 270 |
| Around 69% higher average synthetic performance. |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon R9 270
The Radeon R9 270 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GT 740 | | Radeon R9 270 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GK107 (GK107-425-A2) | vs | Curacao (Curacao PRO) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 118 mm² | vs | 212 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,270 million | vs | 2,800 million |
| Shaders | 384 | vs | 1280 |
| Compute Units | 2 | vs | 20 |
| Core clock | 993 MHz | vs | 900 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 32 | vs | 80 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GT 740 | | Radeon R9 270 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective | vs | 1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GT 740 | | Radeon R9 270 | |
|---|
| TDP | 64 watts | vs | 150 watts |
| Release Date | 29 May 2014 | vs | 13 Nov 2013 |
GeForce GT 740
7.94 GP/s
Radeon R9 270
28.80 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GT 740
31.80 GT/s
Radeon R9 270
72.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GT 740
80.20 GB/s
Radeon R9 270
179.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GT 740
762.60 GFLOPs
Radeon R9 270
2304.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
GeForce GT 740
4610
Radeon R9 270
7820
Points (higher is better)