GeForce GT 740A vs Radeon R5 435 OEM

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated927
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data3.66
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Kepler 2.0 (2013−2015)
GPU code nameHainanGK208
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date30 June 2016 (8 years ago)26 August 2013 (11 years 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 cores320384
Core clock speed1030 MHz980 MHz
Number of transistors690 million915 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt33 Watt
Texture fill rate20.6031.36
Floating-point processing power0.6592 TFLOPS0.7526 TFLOPS
ROPs88
TMUs2032

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 x8PCIe 3.0 x8
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeDDR3DDR3
Maximum RAM amount2 GB2 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidth16 GB/s14.4 GB/s

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 HDMI, 1x VGANo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.1.126
CUDA-3.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 30 June 2016 26 August 2013
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 33 Watt

R5 435 OEM has an age advantage of 2 years.

GT 740A, on the other hand, has 51.5% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 435 OEM and GeForce GT 740A. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R5 435 OEM is a desktop card while GeForce GT 740A is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon R5 435 OEM
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NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A
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