AMD Radeon R9 390 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740

Compare AMD Radeon R9 390 8 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

1919 points
800% significantly better overall score
213 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS
39 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

28 FPS
26 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

39 FPS
35 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

15 FPS
13 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
2 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

46328 points
991% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
4243 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49594 points
1080% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
4201 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43704 points
935% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
4221 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

51251 points
1095% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
4286 points

Specifications

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

512 Bit
300% significantly larger memory bus width
128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

384 GB/s
378% significantly higher memory bandwidth
80.19 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

275 W
64 W
329% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

64 Gigapixels/s
705% significantly higher pixel rate
7.94 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

160 Gigatexels/s
403% significantly higher texture rate
31.78 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560
566% significantly more shading units
384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160
400% significantly more texture mapping units
32

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

64
300% significantly more render output processors
16

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

215th of 586
416th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 300 Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 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

4.5
4.6

Radeon R9 390 vs GeForce GT 740 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon R9 390 GPU is faster than the GeForce GT 740 in gaming.

In addition, the GeForce GT 740 has a significantly lower TDP at 64 W when compared to the Radeon R9 390 at 275 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon R9 390 is faster than the GeForce GT 740.

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