AMD Radeon R5 340 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M

Compare AMD Radeon R5 340 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 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

241 points
3% slightly better overall score
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
3 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

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
53% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
3590 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5434 points
41% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
3852 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4578 points
15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
3955 points

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

36.8 GB/s
155% significantly higher memory bandwidth
14.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

65 W
33 W
96% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

6.24 Gigapixels/s
7.84 Gigapixels/s
25% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

18.72 Gigatexels/s
31.36 Gigatexels/s
67% 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
Identical
8

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

404th of 586
407th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 May
2013 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
DDR3

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 740M specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon R5 340 GPU is faster than the GeForce GT 740M in gaming.

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

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

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