Radeon 740M vs ATI HD 4860

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated505
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data37.87
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code nameRV790Phoenix
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date9 September 2009 (15 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 cores640256
Core clock speed700 MHz800 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2500 MHz
Number of transistors959 million25,390 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)130 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate22.4040.00
Floating-point processing power0.896 TFLOPS2.56 TFLOPS
ROPs168
TMUs3216
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 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pinNone

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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount512 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed750 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth96 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-VideoPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model4.16.7
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.12.1
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 9 September 2009 4 January 2023
Chip lithography 55 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 130 Watt 15 Watt

Radeon 740M has an age advantage of 13 years, a 1275% more advanced lithography process, and 766.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 4860 and Radeon 740M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 4860 is a desktop card while Radeon 740M is a notebook one.


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