GeForce GT 740 and Radeon 540X - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 740 vs Radeon 540X
GeForce GT 740
1534
Radeon 540X
1472
GeForce GT 740
Radeon 540X
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name
GK107
Lexa
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
May 2014
August 2019
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
-
1219 MHz
Core clock speed
993 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
762.6 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
1,270 million
2,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
512
Power consumption (TDP)
64 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
31.78
33.47
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
5012 MHz
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
80.19 GB/s
112.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (12_0)
CUDA
3.0
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.2.131