Radeon HD 7870 and GeForce GT 740A - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7870 vs GeForce GT 740A
Radeon HD 7870
4779
GeForce GT 740A
687
Radeon HD 7870
GeForce GT 740A
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Kepler 2.0 (2013−2015)
GPU code name
Pitcairn XT
GK208
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2012
August 2013
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
-
Core clock speed
1000 MHz
980 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
752.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2800 Million
915 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
384
Power consumption (TDP)
175 Watt
33 Watt
Texture fill rate
80.00
31.36
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
14.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
No outputs
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
3.5
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.1.126