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Nvidia GeForce GT 740M
GPUBoss recommends the Nvidia GeForce GT 740M based on its benchmarks.
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Released January, 2012
AMD Radeon HD 7470M
- 800 MHz
- 1 GB GDDR5
5.5 Out of 10
by Slobodan-Simic (May, 2013)It will work at 823MHz+ GPU clock and feasture 4GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 5GHz and paired up with a 256-bit memory interface that add up to 160GB/s of memory bandwidth.
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Released April, 2013
Nvidia GeForce GT 740M
- 810 MHz
- 2 GB DDR3
5.8 Out of 10
by hassan-mujtaba (May, 2014)The core clock is maintained at 993 MHz for the reference models but comes with boost clock which has been absent on the GK107 chips.
GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of 7470M vs 740M among Laptop GPUs
Gaming | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 21 more | |
Graphics | |
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| T-Rex, Manhattan, Cloud Gate Factor, Sky Diver Factor and 1 more | |
Computing | |
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| Face Detection, Ocean Surface Simulation and 3 more | |
Performance per Watt | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
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| TDP, Idle Power Consumption, Load Power Consumption and 2 more | |
| 5.8 | Overall Score |
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| Higher effective memory clock speed | 3,200 MHz | vs | 1,802 MHz | Around 80% higher effective memory clock speed | |||
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| Slightly better 3DMark 11 graphics score | 3,624.5 | vs | 1,873 | Around 95% better 3DMark 11 graphics score | |||
| Lower TDP | 7W | vs | 45W | 6.4x lower TDP | |||
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| Much better 3DMark06 score | 10,161 | vs | 522 | Around 19.5x better 3DMark06 score | |||
| Better 3DMark vantage graphics score | 5,459 | vs | 1,515.5 | More than 3.5x better 3DMark vantage graphics score | |||
| More memory | 2,048 MB | vs | 1,024 MB | 2x more memory | |||
| Higher texture rate | 25.92 GTexel/s | vs | 6.4 GTexel/s | More than 4x higher texture rate | |||
| More render output processors | 16 | vs | 4 | 12 more render output processors | |||
| More texture mapping units | 32 | vs | 8 | 24 more texture mapping units | |||
| Wider memory bus | 128 bit | vs | 64 bit | 2x wider memory bus | |||
| Better cloud gate factor score | 9.02 | vs | 5.9 | Around 55% better cloud gate factor score | |||
| More shading units | 384 | vs | 160 | 224 more shading units | |||
| Higher memory clock speed | 901 MHz | vs | 800 MHz | Around 15% higher memory clock speed | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of Radeon HD 7470M vs GeForce GT 740M
PassMark Industry standard benchmark for overall graphics card performanceData courtesy Passmark
3DMark 11 Graphics Industry standard benchmark that tests DirectX 11 GPU performance
3DMark Vantage Graphics Industry standard benchmark that tests DirectX 10 GPU performance
3DMark06 Industry standard benchmark that tests DirectX 9 GPU performance
Fire Strike Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
Sky Diver Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
Cloud Gate Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
Laptops
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- 1 laptop with the Radeon HD 7470M, starting from $1,100
- 6 laptops with the GeForce GT 740M, starting from $840
