NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 vs AMD Radeon 520

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 vs AMD Radeon 520 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

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$ 349.95
$ 348.00
$ 1.95 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

213 points
Identical
213 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

5 FPS
Identical
5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS
Identical
3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

4 FPS
4 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

2 FPS
1 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
1 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4243 points
6870 points
61% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4201 points
6539 points
55% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4221 points
6179 points
46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4286 points
5421 points
26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit
100% significantly larger memory bus width
64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

80.19 GB/s
67% significantly higher memory bandwidth
48 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

7.94 Gigapixels/s
93% significantly higher pixel rate
4.1 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

31.78 Gigatexels/s
54% significantly higher texture rate
20.6 Gigatexels/s

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

32
60% significantly more texture mapping units
20

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

16
300% significantly more render output processors
4

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

418th of 586
422nd of 586

Family

The product line

-
Radeon 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 April
2017 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
-

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
-

GeForce GT 740 vs Radeon 520 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GT 740 GPU is faster than the Radeon 520 in gaming.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GT 740 over the Radeon 520.

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