Radeon R9 290 and GeForce GT 740 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 290 vs GeForce GT 740
Radeon R9 290
8336
GeForce GT 740
1534
Radeon R9 290
GeForce GT 740
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name
Hawaii
GK107
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2013
May 2014
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
947 MHz
993 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,849 gflops
762.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
1,270 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
384
Power consumption (TDP)
275 Watt
64 Watt
Texture fill rate
151.5
31.78
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
5012 MHz
Memory bandwidth
320.0 GB/s
80.19 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
3.0
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.1.126