GeForce GT 740 and Radeon RX 590 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 740 vs Radeon RX 590
GeForce GT 740
1534
Radeon RX 590
9695
GeForce GT 740
Radeon RX 590
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
GK107
Polaris 30
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2014
November 2018
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1545 MHz
Core clock speed
993 MHz
1469 MHz
Floating-point performance
762.6 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
1,270 million
5,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
2304
Power consumption (TDP)
64 Watt
175 Watt
Texture fill rate
31.78
222.5
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
5012 MHz
8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
80.19 GB/s
256.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
1x HDMI, 3x 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
FreeSync
-
+