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GeForce GT 740 and Radeon R5 230 - video card comparison


Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 740 vs Radeon R5 230

GeForce GT 740
1534
Radeon R5 230
228

GeForce GT 740

Radeon R5 230


Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)

GPU code name
GK107
Caicos

Market segment
Desktop
Desktop

Release date
May 2014
April 2014

Bus support
-
PCIe 1.0 x4

Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
N/A

Core clock speed
993 MHz
-

Floating-point performance
762.6 gflops
200.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm

Number of transistors
1,270 million
370 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
160

Power consumption (TDP)
64 Watt
19 Watt

Texture fill rate
31.78
5.000

Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3

Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB

Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit

Memory clock speed
5012 MHz
-

Memory bandwidth
80.19 GB/s
10.67 GB/s

Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA

Eyefinity
-
1

HDMI
+
+

DisplayPort support
-
-

DirectX
12 (11_0)
DirectX® 11

CUDA
3.0
-

Mantle
-
-

OpenCL
1.2
1.2

OpenGL
4.6
4.4

Shader Model
5.1
5.0

Vulkan
1.1.126
-

AppAcceleration
-
-

CrossFire
-
1

DDMA audio
-
-

Enduro
-
-

HD3D
-
-

​PowerPlay
-
+

PowerTune
-
-

TrueAudio
-
-

ZeroCore
-
-