Radeon 740M vs GeForce 6500

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated502
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data39.73
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code nameNV44 A2Phoenix
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date1 October 2005 (19 years ago)4 January 2023 (1 year ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA coresno data256
Core clock speed400 MHz800 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2500 MHz
Number of transistors75 million25,390 million
Manufacturing process technology110 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data15 Watt
Texture fill rate1.60040.00
Floating-point processing powerno data2.56 TFLOPS
ROPs28
TMUs416
Ray Tracing Coresno data4

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Width1-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR2System Shared
Maximum RAM amount128 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed266 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth8.512 GB/sno data
Shared memoryno data+

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-VideoPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX9.0c (9_3)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model3.06.7
OpenGL2.14.6
OpenCLN/A2.1
VulkanN/A1.3

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

GeForce 6500 38
Radeon 740M 3187
+8287%

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 October 2005 4 January 2023
Chip lithography 110 nm 4 nm

Radeon 740M has an age advantage of 17 years, and a 2650% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 6500 and Radeon 740M. We've got no test results to judge.


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