GeForce GT 740M vs Radeon HD 8750M

GeForce GT 740M
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 20 Jun 2013
GeForce GT 740M
Radeon HD 8750M
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 26 Feb 2013
Radeon HD 8750M

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GT 740M
    100%
  • Radeon HD 8750M
    111%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 740M

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 8750M

Around 11% 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 8750M

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 8750M

The Radeon HD 8750M is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 740MRadeon HD 8750M
GPU NameGK208 (GT 740M)vsMars (Mars PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size87 mm²vs77 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs1,040 million
Shaders384vs384
Compute Units2vs6
Core clock980 MHzvs620 MHz
ROPs8vs8
TMUs16vs24

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 740MRadeon HD 8750M
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 740MRadeon HD 8750M
TDP33 wattsvs0 watts
Release Date20 Jun 2013vs26 Feb 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 740M
    7.84 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 8750M
    6.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 740M
    15.68 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 8750M
    18.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 740M
    14.40 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 8750M
    64.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 740M
    752.60 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 8750M
    595.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GT 740M
    1860
  • Radeon HD 8750M
    2070

Points (higher is better)

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