Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs GeForce GT 740

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking702not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.19no data
Power efficiency4.18no data
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameGK107Tahiti
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Designno datareference
Release date29 May 2014 (10 years ago)22 June 2012 (12 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$89 $499

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores3842048
Core clock speed993 MHzno data
Boost clock speedno data1050 MHz
Number of transistors1,270 million4,313 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)64 Watt250 Watt
Texture fill rate31.78134.4
Floating-point processing power0.7626 TFLOPS4.301 TFLOPS
ROPs1632
TMUs32128

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).

Bus supportno dataPCIe 2.1 x16
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length145 mm274 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin1x 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 amount4 GB3 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1253 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth80.19 GB/s288 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Eyefinity-+
HDMI++

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

CrossFire-+
FreeSync-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)DirectX® 11
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.1.126-
CUDA3.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 29 May 2014 22 June 2012
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 3 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 64 Watt 250 Watt

GT 740 has an age advantage of 1 year, a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 290.6% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 740 and Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition. We've got no test results to judge.


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