Radeon 740M vs GeForce 256 DDR

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated502
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data38.55
ArchitectureCelsius (1999−2005)RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code nameNV10 A3Phoenix
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date23 December 1999 (24 years ago)4 January 2023 (1 year ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA coresno data256
Core clock speed120 MHz800 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2500 MHz
Number of transistors17 million25,390 million
Manufacturing process technology220 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data15 Watt
Texture fill rate0.4840.00
Floating-point processing powerno data2.56 TFLOPS
ROPs48
TMUs416
Ray Tracing Coresno data4

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfaceAGP 4xPCIe 4.0 x8
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDRSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amount32 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed150 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth4.8 GB/sno data
Shared memoryno data+

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x VGAPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX7.012 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGL1.24.6
OpenCLN/A2.1
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 December 1999 4 January 2023
Chip lithography 220 nm 4 nm

Radeon 740M has an age advantage of 23 years, and a 5400% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 256 DDR and Radeon 740M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 256 DDR is a desktop card while Radeon 740M is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA GeForce 256 DDR
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