Graphics card comparison
GeForce GT 740 vs Radeon HD 6790
Nvidia
GeForce GT 740
1024 Mb GDDR5
Released 29 May 2014
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VS
AMD
Radeon HD 6790
1024 Mb GDDR5
Released 4 Apr 2011
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Summary
Synthetic performance index
- GeForce GT 740149%
- Radeon HD 6790100%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider the GeForce GT 740
- 86 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 6790 .
- This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
- Around 49% higher average synthetic performance.
- Supports PhysX
- Supports G-Sync
- Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
- Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications
Reasons to consider the Radeon HD 6790
- Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
Our verdict
HWSpot recommends the GeForce GT 740
The GeForce GT 740 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Specifications
Core configuration
| GeForce GT 740 | Radeon HD 6790 |
|---|
| GPU Name | GK107 (GK107-425-A2) | Barts (Barts LE) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 118 mm² | 255 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,270 million | 1,700 million |
| Shaders | 384 | 800 |
| Compute Units | 2 | 10 |
| Core clock | 993 MHz | 840 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | 16 |
| TMUs | 32 | 40 |
Memory configuration
| GeForce GT 740 | Radeon HD 6790 |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective | 1050 MHz
4200 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GT 740 | Radeon HD 6790 |
|---|
| TDP | 64 watts | 150 watts |
| Release Date | 29 May 2014 | 4 Apr 2011 |
Raw performance comparison
Pixel Rate
- GeForce GT 7407.94 GP/s
- Radeon HD 679013.40 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Texel Rate
- GeForce GT 74031.80 GT/s
- Radeon HD 679033.60 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Memory bandwidth
- GeForce GT 74080.20 GB/s
- Radeon HD 6790134.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Single precision performance
- GeForce GT 740762.60 GFLOPs
- Radeon HD 67901344.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
Synthetic benchmarks
3DMark 11
- GeForce GT 7404610
- Radeon HD 67903090
Points (higher is better)