NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon 740M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs AMD Radeon 740M, 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

2262 points
83% significantly better overall score
1233 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS
19 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
28 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS
16 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
19 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS
7 FPS slightly higher City frame rate
24 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS
19 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
9 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points
198% significantly higher Blender score
97.23 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points
74% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
16802 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
25942 points

Specifications

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586
248th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September
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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

4.5
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GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon 740M benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 970 graphics card is better than the Radeon 740M in our tests.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 970 over the Radeon 740M.

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