AMD Radeon R7 240 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740

Compare AMD Radeon R7 240 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 125.00
$ 224.95 significantly less expensive
$ 349.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

121 points
213 points
76% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

3 FPS
5 FPS
2 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

2 FPS
3 FPS
1 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

2 FPS
4 FPS
1 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS
2 FPS
1 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5326 points
25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
4243 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5023 points
19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
4201 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5101 points
20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
4221 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5023 points
17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
4286 points

Specifications

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit
Identical
128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

72 GB/s
80.19 GB/s
11% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

30 W
113% significantly lower TDP
64 W

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

15.6 Gigatexels/s
31.78 Gigatexels/s
103% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

320
384
20% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

20
32
60% significantly 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

485th of 586
420th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2015 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.4
4.6

Radeon R7 240 vs GeForce GT 740 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GT 740 beats the Radeon R7 240 in gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon R7 240 has a significantly lower TDP at 30 W when compared to the GeForce GT 740 at 64 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 GeForce GT 740 is better than the Radeon R7 240.

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