GeForce GT 740M vs Radeon R7 M260

GeForce GT 740M
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 20 Jun 2013
GeForce GT 740M
Radeon R7 M260
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 11 Jun 2014
Radeon R7 M260

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GT 740M
    100%
  • Radeon R7 M260
    101%

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R7 M260

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 740MRadeon R7 M260
GPU NameGK208 (GT 740M)vsTopaz (Topaz XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size87 mm²vs77 mm²
Transistorsunknownvsunknown
Shaders384vs384
Compute Units2vs6
Core clock980 MHzvs940 MHz
ROPs8vs8
TMUs16vs24

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 740MRadeon R7 M260
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
3600 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 740MRadeon R7 M260
TDP33 wattsvs0 watts
Release Date20 Jun 2013vs11 Jun 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 740M
    7.84 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 M260
    7.52 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 740M
    15.68 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 M260
    22.56 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 740M
    14.40 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 M260
    57.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 740M
    752.60 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 M260
    721.90 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GT 740M
    1860
  • Radeon R7 M260
    1880

Points (higher is better)

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