Radeon 540 and GeForce GT 740 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon 540 vs GeForce GT 740
Radeon 540
1420
GeForce GT 740
1534
Radeon 540
GeForce GT 740
Architecture
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name
Lexa
GK107
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2017
May 2014
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1124 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1183 MHz
993 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
762.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,200 million
1,270 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
384
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
64 Watt
Texture fill rate
28.39
31.78
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
32 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
6 GB/s
5012 MHz
Memory bandwidth
24 GB/s
80.19 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.7
5.1
Vulkan
1.3
1.1.126