AMD Radeon R7 450 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740

Compare AMD Radeon R7 450 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

$ 149.99
$ 199.96 significantly less expensive
$ 349.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

297 points
39% slightly better overall score
213 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

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

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

4 FPS
1 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

6 FPS
2 FPS significantly 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

10702 points
152% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
4243 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9779 points
132% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
4201 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10058 points
138% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
4221 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

8478 points
97% significantly 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

65 W
64 W
1% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

14.8 Gigapixels/s
86% significantly higher pixel rate
7.94 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

29.6 Gigatexels/s
31.78 Gigatexels/s
7% slightly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512
33% slightly more shading units
384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

32
Identical
32

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

16
Identical
16

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

378th of 586
416th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June
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

4.3
4.6

Radeon R7 450 vs GeForce GT 740 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Radeon R7 450 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 R7 450 at 65 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon R7 450 is better than the GeForce GT 740.

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