NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M vs AMD Radeon R5 340X

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M vs AMD Radeon R5 340X, 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
Identical
232 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

6 FPS
Identical
6 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
5 FPS
1 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
5341 points
48% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3564 points
4929 points
38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3852 points
5148 points
33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3955 points
4748 points
20% 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
16 GB/s
11% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

33 W
96% significantly lower TDP
65 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

7.84 Gigapixels/s
8% slightly higher pixel rate
7.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

31.36 Gigatexels/s
45% significantly higher texture rate
21.6 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384
Identical
384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

32
33% slightly more texture mapping units
24

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

8
Identical
8

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

410th of 586
409th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 April
2015 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce GT 740M vs Radeon R5 340X comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GT 740M graphics card is better than the Radeon R5 340X in our tests.

In addition, the GeForce GT 740M has a significantly lower TDP at 33 W when compared to the Radeon R5 340X at 65 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GT 740M is faster than the Radeon R5 340X.

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