NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 vs AMD Radeon Vega 11

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 vs AMD Radeon Vega 11, 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
658 points
208% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

5 FPS
14 FPS
9 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS
11 FPS
8 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

4 FPS
13 FPS
9 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

2 FPS
6 FPS
3 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

58.69 points
70.66 points
20% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4243 points
12376 points
191% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4201 points
12402 points
195% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

2307 points
17392 points
653% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4221 points
13344 points
216% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4286 points
16804 points
292% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

64 W
15 W
326% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

7.94 Gigapixels/s
11.2 Gigapixels/s
40% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

31.78 Gigatexels/s
61.6 Gigatexels/s
93% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384
704
83% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

32
44
37% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

16
100% significantly more render output processors
8

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

415th of 586
297th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 April
2019 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
-

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce GT 740 vs Radeon Vega 11 benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon Vega 11 graphics card is better than the GeForce GT 740 in our tests.

In addition, the Radeon Vega 11 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the GeForce GT 740 at 64 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon Vega 11 over the GeForce GT 740.

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