GeForce GT 740 and Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition - video card comparison
GeForce GT 740
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
GK107
Tahiti
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2014
June 2012
Bus support
-
PCIe 2.1 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1050 MHz
Core clock speed
993 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
762.6 gflops
4,301 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,270 million
4,313 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
64 Watt
250 Watt
Texture fill rate
31.78
134.4
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
3 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
5012 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
80.19 GB/s
288 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Eyefinity
-
1
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
DirectX® 11
CUDA
3.0
-
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
1.1.126
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
-
1
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
-
1
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-