Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 vs GeForce GT 740 OEM

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameGK106Tahiti
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date14 April 2015 (9 years ago)31 January 2012 (12 years 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 cores384768
Core clock speed1050 MHz800 MHz
Number of transistors2,540 million4,313 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)65 Watt85 Watt
Texture fill rate33.6038.40
Floating-point processing power0.8064 TFLOPS1.229 TFLOPS
ROPs1632
TMUs3248

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GB3 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1253 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth80.19 GB/s240.0 GB/s

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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (11_1)
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.1.1261.2.131
CUDA3.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 14 April 2015 31 January 2012
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 3 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 65 Watt 85 Watt

GT 740 OEM has an age advantage of 3 years, and 30.8% lower power consumption.

HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2, on the other hand, has a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 740 OEM and Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM
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