Radeon 740M vs HD 6870 X2

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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 data38.24
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code nameBartsPhoenix
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date8 July 2011 (13 years ago)4 January 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$520 no data

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 cores1120256
Core clock speed900 MHz800 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2500 MHz
Number of transistors1,700 million25,390 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate50.4040.00
Floating-point processing power2.016 TFLOPS2.56 TFLOPS
ROPs328
TMUs5616
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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Length304 mmno data
Width2-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1050 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth134.4 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 HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPortPortable Device Dependent
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.06.7
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.22.1
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 July 2011 4 January 2023
Chip lithography 40 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 300 Watt 15 Watt

Radeon 740M has an age advantage of 11 years, a 900% more advanced lithography process, and 1900% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6870 X2 and Radeon 740M. We've got no test results to judge.


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