Radeon R9 280 and GeForce GT 740M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 280 vs GeForce GT 740M
Radeon R9 280
5725
GeForce GT 740M
816
Radeon R9 280
GeForce GT 740M
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name
Tahiti
N14P-GV2, ...
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
March 2014
March 2013
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
PCI Express 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
-
Boost clock speed
933 MHz
980 MHz
Core clock speed
-
810 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,344 gflops
752.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
915 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1792
384
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
45 Watt
Texture fill rate
104.5
31.36
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
1600 - 1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
240 GB/s
14.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Standard memory configuration
-
DDR3/GDDR5
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
No outputs
eDP 1.2 signal support
-
Up to 3840x2160
LVDS signal support
-
Up to 1920x1200
Eyefinity
1
-
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
-
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 API
CUDA
-
+
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.5
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
+
1.1.126
3D Vision / 3DTV Play
-
+
AppAcceleration
-
-
Blu-Ray 3D Support
-
+
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
-
+
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
Optimus
-
+
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
+
-
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
-
+
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-