ATI Radeon X740 XL: specs and benchmarks

Summary

ATI started Radeon X740 XL sales 7 March 2005. This is a desktop graphics card based on a R400 architecture and made with 110 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 128 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 0.9 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 14.4 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is single-slot card attached via PCIe 1.0 x16 interface.

General info

Some basic facts about Radeon X740 XL: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Architecture	R400 (2004−2008)
GPU code name	RV410
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	7 March 2005 (19 years ago)

Technical specs

Radeon X740 XL's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon X740 XL's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Core clock speed	425 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors	120 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm	of 4 (Radeon 780M)
Texture fill rate	3.400	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)

Size and compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon X740 XL and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16
Width	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon X740 XL: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	128 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	900 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB/s	of 3276 (Aldebaran)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon X740 XL. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x VGA

API support

APIs supported by Radeon X740 XL, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	9.0b (9_2)
OpenGL	2.0	of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCL	N/A
Vulkan	N/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon X740 XL. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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