Radeon 740M vs GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile Refresh

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated500
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data38.37
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code nameTU106BPhoenix
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date19 January 2020 (4 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 cores2304256
Core clock speed1305 MHz800 MHz
Boost clock speed1485 MHz2500 MHz
Number of transistors10,800 million25,390 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)115 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate213.840.00
Floating-point processing power6.843 TFLOPS2.56 TFLOPS
ROPs648
TMUs14416
Tensor Cores288no data
Ray Tracing Cores364

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 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Widthno dataIGP
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 typeGDDR6System Shared
Maximum RAM amount8 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1750 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth448.0 GB/sno data
Shared memory-+

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 ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.1
Vulkan1.2.1401.3
CUDA7.5-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 19 January 2020 4 January 2023
Chip lithography 12 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 115 Watt 15 Watt

Radeon 740M has an age advantage of 2 years, a 200% more advanced lithography process, and 666.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile Refresh and Radeon 740M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile Refresh is a notebook card while Radeon 740M is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile Refresh
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AMD Radeon 740M
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