AMD Radeon R5 340 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740

Compare AMD Radeon R5 340 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

241 points
13% 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
Identical
3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

5 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher City frame rate
4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

2 FPS
2 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5498 points
29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
4243 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5434 points
28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
4221 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4578 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
4286 points

Specifications

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit
128 Bit
100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

36.8 GB/s
80.19 GB/s
117% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

65 W
64 W
1% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

6.24 Gigapixels/s
7.94 Gigapixels/s
27% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

18.72 Gigatexels/s
31.78 Gigatexels/s
69% significantly 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

24
32
33% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

8
16
100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

403rd of 586
423rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 May
2015 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

Radeon R5 340 vs GeForce GT 740 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon R5 340 beats the GeForce GT 740 in gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GT 740 has a slightly lower TDP at 64 W when compared to the Radeon R5 340 at 65 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon R5 340 is better than the GeForce GT 740.

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