AMD Radeon Vega 8 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740

Compare AMD Radeon Vega 8 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

593 points
178% significantly better overall score
213 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

13 FPS
7 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS
7 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

12 FPS
8 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

5 FPS
3 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
2 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

88.64 points
51% significantly higher Blender score
58.69 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

8763 points
106% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
4243 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

8956 points
113% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
4201 points
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

10718 points
364% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
2307 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9296 points
120% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
4221 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

11397 points
165% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
4286 points

Specifications

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

45 W
42% slightly lower TDP
64 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

16 Gigapixels/s
101% significantly higher pixel rate
7.94 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

64 Gigatexels/s
101% significantly higher texture rate
31.78 Gigatexels/s

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

8
16
100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

310th of 586
415th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January
2015 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

-
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

Radeon Vega 8 vs GeForce GT 740 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Radeon Vega 8 beats the GeForce GT 740 in gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon Vega 8 has a slightly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the GeForce GT 740 at 64 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon Vega 8 over the GeForce GT 740.

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