Radeon R2E Mobile Graphics 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 ranking705not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.19no data
Power efficiency4.11no data
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameGK107Beema
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date29 May 2014 (10 years ago)28 January 2015 (9 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$89 no data

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 cores384128
Core clock speed993 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data600 MHz
Number of transistors1,270 million930 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)64 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate31.782.400
Floating-point processing power0.7626 TFLOPS0.0768 TFLOPS
ROPs164
TMUs328

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 x16IGP
Length145 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno data

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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount4 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1253 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth80.19 GB/sno data
Shared memory-+

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-HDMIPortable Device Dependent
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model5.16.5 (6.0)
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.1
Vulkan1.1.1261.2.170
CUDA3.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 29 May 2014 28 January 2015
Power consumption (TDP) 64 Watt 15 Watt

R2E Mobile Graphics has an age advantage of 7 months, and 326.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 740 and Radeon R2E Mobile Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GT 740 is a desktop card while Radeon R2E Mobile Graphics is a notebook one.


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