NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 vs AMD Radeon HD 5500

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 vs AMD Radeon HD 5500, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

213 points
187% significantly better overall score
74 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

5 FPS
4 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
1 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS
1 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
1 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

4 FPS
3 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
1 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

2 FPS
2 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
0 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4243 points
291% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
1085 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4221 points
286% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
1093 points

Specifications

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

426th of 586
519th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 April
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
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DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
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GeForce GT 740 vs Radeon HD 5500 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GT 740 beats the Radeon HD 5500 in gaming performance.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GT 740 over the Radeon HD 5500.

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