Radeon 740M vs ATI Wii GPU

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated504
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data38.40
ArchitectureR500 (2005−2007)RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code nameHollywoodPhoenix
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date19 November 2006 (18 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 speed243 MHz800 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2500 MHz
Number of transistors107 million25,390 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)45 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate0.9740.00
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).

InterfaceIGPPCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount64 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed243 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth3.888 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 ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectXN/A12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGLN/A4.6
OpenCLN/A2.1
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 19 November 2006 4 January 2023
Chip lithography 90 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 45 Watt 15 Watt

Radeon 740M has an age advantage of 16 years, a 2150% more advanced lithography process, and 200% lower power consumption.

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


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