NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 vs AMD Radeon Vega 6

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 vs AMD Radeon Vega 6, 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

315 points

47% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

5 FPS

8 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS

6 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

4 FPS

6 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

2 FPS

3 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4243 points

7003 points

65% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4201 points

6797 points

61% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4221 points

7199 points

70% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4286 points

6854 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

64 W

45 W

42% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

7.94 Gigapixels/s

13.6 Gigapixels/s

71% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

31.78 Gigatexels/s

40.8 Gigatexels/s

28% slightly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

Identical

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

33% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

417th of 586

370th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 April

2021 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce GT 740 vs Radeon Vega 6 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon Vega 6 GPU is faster than the GeForce GT 740 in gaming.

In addition, the Radeon Vega 6 has a slightly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the GeForce GT 740 at 64 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon Vega 6 is faster than the GeForce GT 740.

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