GeForce GT 740M vs Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2

GeForce GT 740M Memory: 2048Mb DDR3MOBILE Release date: 20 Jun 2013

Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2 Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5MOBILE Release date: 6 Dec 2015

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Summary

Synthetic performance index

GeForce GT 740M
100%
Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 Rev. 2

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 740M		Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
GPU Name	GK208 (GT 740M)	vs	Opal (Opal PRO)
Fab Process	28 nm	vs	28 nm
Die Size	87 mmÂ²	vs	77 mmÂ²
Transistors	unknown	vs	1,040 million
Shaders	384	vs	384
Compute Units	2	vs	6
Core clock	980 MHz	vs	620 MHz
ROPs	8	vs	8
TMUs	16	vs	24

Memory Configuration

	GeForce GT 740M		Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
Memory Type	DDR3	vs	GDDR5
Bus Width	64 bit	vs	128 bit
Memory Speed	900 MHz 1800 MHz effective	vs	1000 MHz 4000 MHz effective
Memory Size	2048 Mb	vs	1024 Mb

Additional details

	GeForce GT 740M		Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
TDP	33 watts	vs	0 watts
Release Date	20 Jun 2013	vs	6 Dec 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

GeForce GT 740M
7.84 GP/s
Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
5.72 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

GeForce GT 740M
15.68 GT/s
Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
17.16 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

GeForce GT 740M
14.40 GB/s
Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
64.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

GeForce GT 740M
752.60 GFLOPs
Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
549.10 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

GeForce GT 740M
1860
Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
1880

Points (higher is better)

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