Comparison of GeForce GT 740 and AMD FirePro M5950

Attribute	GeForce GT 740 ×	AMD FirePro M5950 ×
GPU
Release year (year)	2013	2011
GPU brand	Nvidia	AMD
GPU name	GK117	Whistler
Market	Desktop	Laptop
Clock speed (MHz)	993	725
Is dual GPU	-	-
Model	GeForce GT 740	AMD FirePro M5950
Memory
Memory (MB)	1,024	1,024
Memory bandwidth (GB/s)	80.2	57.6
Memory bus (bit)	128	128
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Memory clock speed (MHz)	1,253	900
Effective memory clock speed (MHz)	5,012	3,600
Noise and power
TDP (W)	64	35
Raw performance
Pixel rate (GPixel/s)	7.94	5.8
SMX units	3	-
Render output processors	16	8
Texture mapping units	32	24
Shading units	384	480
Floating-point performance (GFLOPS)	763	696
Compute units	-	6
Texture rate (GTexel/s)	31.8	17.4
Benchmarks
Particle simulation (mInteraction/s)	-	115.38
T-Rex (Compubench 1.5) (frames/s)	-	0.53
Video composition (frames/s)	-	16.14
Crysis 3	37	-
Dirt3	-	18.2
Crysis 2	-	16
Cloud Gate Factor	11.96	-
Battlefield 4	30	-
Face detection (mPixels/s)	16.37	3.4
Bitcoin mining (mHash/s)	13.37	66.64
Sky Diver Factor	139.55	-
Fire Strike Factor	15.34	-
Ocean surface simulation (frames/s)	314.12	323.7