AMD Radeon HD 7870M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Heathrow GK107
GPU variant Heathrow XT (216-0835033) GK107-425-A2
Architecture GCN 1.0 Kepler
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 28 nm 28 nm
Number of transistors 1,500 million 1,270 million
Die size 123 mm² 118 mm²

Mobile graphics

Release date Apr 24th, 2012
Generation London (HD 7800M)
Production End-of-life
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Predecessor Vancouver
Successor Solar System

Clocks

GPU clock 800 MHz 993 MHz
Memory clock 1000 MHz 4 Gbps effective 1253 MHz 5 Gbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 2 GB 1024 MB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory bus width 128 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 64.00 GB/s 80.19 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 640 384
TMUs 40 32
ROPs 16 16
Compute units 10
Cache L1 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per SMX)
Cache L2 256 KB 256 KB
SMX count 2

Performance

Pixel rate 12.80 GPixel/s 7.944 GPixel/s
Texture rate 32.00 GTexel/s 31.78 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 1,024 GFLOPS 762.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 64.00 GFLOPS (1:16) 31.78 GFLOPS (1:24)

Dimensions & Outputs

TDP 45 W 64 W
Outputs No outputs 2x DVI1x mini-HDMI
Slot width Single-slot
Length 145 mm 5.7 inches
Suggested PSU 250 W
Power connectors 1x 6-pin
Board number P2010 SKU 8 P2011 SKU 6

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (11_1) 12 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 3.0
Vulkan 1.2 1.1
Shader model 5.1 5.1
CUDA 3.0

Other Features

Graphics Card

Release date May 29th, 2014
Generation GeForce 700
Production End-of-life
Launch price 89 USD
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Predecessor GeForce 600
Successor GeForce 900

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