Radeon 740M vs Pro W6800X

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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 data39.33
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code nameNavi 21Phoenix
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date3 August 2021 (3 years ago)4 January 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$2,799 no data

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 cores3840256
Core clock speed1800 MHz800 MHz
Boost clock speed2087 MHz2500 MHz
Number of transistors26,800 million25,390 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)200 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate500.940.00
Floating-point processing power16.03 TFLOPS2.56 TFLOPS
ROPs968
TMUs24016
Ray Tracing Cores604

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).

InterfaceApple MPXPCIe 4.0 x8
Length267 mmno data
WidthQuad-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectorsApple MPXNone

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 amount32 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed2000 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth512.0 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 Connectors1x HDMI 2.1, 4x ThunderboltPortable Device Dependent
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.76.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.12.1
Vulkan1.31.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 August 2021 4 January 2023
Chip lithography 7 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 200 Watt 15 Watt

Radeon 740M has an age advantage of 1 year, a 75% more advanced lithography process, and 1233.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Pro W6800X and Radeon 740M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon Pro W6800X is a workstation graphics card while Radeon 740M is a desktop one.


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