AMD Radeon HD 8470 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740

Compare AMD Radeon HD 8470 1 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740, 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

28 points
213 points
660% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

1 FPS
5 FPS
4 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

1 FPS
3 FPS
2 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

0 FPS
4 FPS
3 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

0 FPS
2 FPS
2 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

785 points
4243 points
440% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

785 points
4221 points
437% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Specifications

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

35 W
82% significantly lower TDP
64 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

557th of 586
418th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2015 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.4
4.6

Radeon HD 8470 vs GeForce GT 740 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GT 740 graphics card is better than the Radeon HD 8470 in our tests.

In addition, the Radeon HD 8470 has a significantly lower TDP at 35 W when compared to the GeForce GT 740 at 64 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GT 740 is faster than the Radeon HD 8470.

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