GeForce GT 740M and Radeon HD 3870 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 740M vs Radeon HD 3870
GeForce GT 740M
816
Radeon HD 3870
572
GeForce GT 740M
Radeon HD 3870
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
N14P-GV2, ...
RV670
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2013
November 2007
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
980 MHz
-
Core clock speed
810 MHz
777 MHz
Floating-point performance
752.6 gflops
497.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
915 million
666 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
320
Power consumption (TDP)
45 Watt
106 Watt
Texture fill rate
31.36
12.43
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR4
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
64/128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1600 - 1800 MHz
2252 MHz
Memory bandwidth
14.4 GB/s
72.06 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Standard memory configuration
DDR3/GDDR5
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
eDP 1.2 signal support
Up to 3840x2160
-
LVDS signal support
Up to 1920x1200
-
VGA аnalog display support
Up to 2048x1536
-
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
Up to 3840x2160
-
HDCP content protection
+
-
HDMI
+
-
7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 API
10.1 (10_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
4.5
3.3
Shader Model
5.1
4.1
Vulkan
1.1.126
N/A
3D Vision / 3DTV Play
+
-
Blu-Ray 3D Support
+
-
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
+
-
Optimus
+
-
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
+
-