Radeon HD 6970M and GeForce GT 740M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6970M vs GeForce GT 740M
Radeon HD 6970M
2338
GeForce GT 740M
816
Radeon HD 6970M
GeForce GT 740M
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name
Blackcomb XT
N14P-GV2, ...
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
January 2011
March 2013
Bus support
-
PCI Express 3.0
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Boost clock speed
-
980 MHz
Core clock speed
680 MHz
810 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,305.6 gflops
752.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
915 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
384
Power consumption (TDP)
75-100 Watt
45 Watt
Texture fill rate
32.64
31.36
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
1600 - 1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
115.2 GB/s
14.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Standard memory configuration
-
DDR3/GDDR5
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
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
11.2 (11_0)
12 API
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
4.5
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.1.126
3D Vision / 3DTV Play
-
+
Blu-Ray 3D Support
-
+
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
-
+
Optimus
-
+
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
-
+