Radeon 740M vs ATI X600 XT

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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 data38.39
ArchitectureRage 9 (2003−2006)RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code nameRV380Phoenix
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date1 September 2004 (20 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 coresno data256
Core clock speed500 MHz800 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2500 MHz
Number of transistors75 million25,390 million
Manufacturing process technology130 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)25 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate2.00040.00
Floating-point processing powerno data2.56 TFLOPS
ROPs48
TMUs416
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 1.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Width1-slotIGP
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 typeDDRSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amount128 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed370 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth11.84 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 VGA, 1x S-VideoPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0b12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGL2.04.6
OpenCLN/A2.1
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 September 2004 4 January 2023
Chip lithography 130 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 25 Watt 15 Watt

Radeon 740M has an age advantage of 18 years, a 3150% more advanced lithography process, and 66.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon X600 XT and Radeon 740M. We've got no test results to judge.


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