GeForce GT 740 OEM vs Radeon R7 M440

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking848not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 3.0 (2014−2019)Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code nameMesoGK106
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date15 May 2016 (8 years ago)14 April 2015 (9 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 cores320384
Core clock speed891 MHz1050 MHz
Number of transistors1,550 million2,540 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)unknown65 Watt
Texture fill rate17.8233.60
Floating-point processing power0.5702 TFLOPS0.8064 TFLOPS
ROPs816
TMUs2032

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 x8PCIe 3.0 x16
Widthno data1-slot
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 typeDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GB1 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz1253 MHz
Memory bandwidth14.4 GB/s80.19 GB/s
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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (11_0)
Shader Model6.05.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.1.126
CUDA-3.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 May 2016 14 April 2015
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 1 GB

R7 M440 has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R7 M440 and GeForce GT 740 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R7 M440 is a notebook card while GeForce GT 740 OEM is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon R7 M440
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