NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M vs AMD Radeon 520

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M vs AMD Radeon 520 4 GB, 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

232 points
8% slightly better overall score
213 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

6 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate
5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
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

3590 points
6870 points
91% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3564 points
6539 points
83% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3852 points
6179 points
60% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3955 points
5421 points
37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit
Identical
64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

14.4 GB/s
48 GB/s
233% significantly higher memory bandwidth

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

7.84 Gigapixels/s
91% significantly higher pixel rate
4.1 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

31.36 Gigatexels/s
52% 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

8
100% significantly more render output processors
4

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

409th of 586
420th of 586

Family

The product line

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Radeon 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 April
2017 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
-

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
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GeForce GT 740M vs Radeon 520 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Radeon 520 beats the GeForce GT 740M in gaming performance.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon 520 is faster than the GeForce GT 740M.

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