AMD Radeon R7 M340 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740

Compare AMD Radeon R7 M340 4 GB 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

213 points
Identical
213 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

5 FPS
Identical
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

4 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher City frame rate
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

5396 points
27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
4243 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5574 points
32% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
4201 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5183 points
22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
4221 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

6127 points
42% 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

16 GB/s
80.19 GB/s
401% significantly higher memory bandwidth

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

5.72 Gigapixels/s
7.94 Gigapixels/s
38% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

17.16 Gigatexels/s
31.78 Gigatexels/s
85% 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

424th of 586
417th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 300 Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 December
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

4.6
4.6

Radeon R7 M340 vs GeForce GT 740 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GT 740 graphics card is better than the Radeon R7 M340 in our tests.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GT 740 over the Radeon R7 M340.

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