AMD Radeon R7 M260X vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M

Compare AMD Radeon R7 M260X 4 GB 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

176 points
232 points
31% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

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

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

4 FPS
Identical
4 FPS

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

5979 points
66% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
3590 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5787 points
50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
3852 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4631 points
17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
3955 points

Specifications

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit
100% significantly larger memory bus width
64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

64 GB/s
344% significantly higher memory bandwidth
14.4 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

5.72 Gigapixels/s
7.84 Gigapixels/s
37% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

17.16 Gigatexels/s
31.36 Gigatexels/s
82% 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

448th of 586
407th 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 December
2013 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.2
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.3
4.6

Radeon R7 M260X vs GeForce GT 740M comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GT 740M beats the Radeon R7 M260X in gaming performance.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GT 740M is better than the Radeon R7 M260X.

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