Radeon 740M vs R7 435 OEM

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated503
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data38.63
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code nameOlandPhoenix
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date30 June 2016 (8 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 cores320256
Core clock speed920 MHz800 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2500 MHz
Number of transistors950 million25,390 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate18.4040.00
Floating-point processing power0.5888 TFLOPS2.56 TFLOPS
ROPs88
TMUs2016
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 3.0 x8PCIe 4.0 x8
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount2 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1000 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth16 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 HDMI, 1x VGAPortable Device Dependent
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.1
Vulkan1.2.1311.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 30 June 2016 4 January 2023
Chip lithography 28 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 15 Watt

Radeon 740M has an age advantage of 6 years, a 600% more advanced lithography process, and 233.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R7 435 OEM and Radeon 740M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R7 435 OEM is a desktop card while Radeon 740M is a notebook one.


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