NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

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$ 149.95
$ 200.00 significantly less expensive
$ 349.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

121 points
213 points
76% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

3 FPS
5 FPS
2 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

2 FPS
3 FPS
1 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

2 FPS
4 FPS
2 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS
2 FPS
1 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

2317 points
3302 points
42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

1239 points
2320 points
87% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

2654 points
4243 points
59% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

2548 points
4201 points
64% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

1332 points
2307 points
73% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

2712 points
4221 points
55% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

2641 points
4286 points
62% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit
Identical
128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

28.8 GB/s
80.19 GB/s
178% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

65 W
64 W
1% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

3.24 Gigapixels/s
7.94 Gigapixels/s
145% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

12.96 Gigatexels/s
31.78 Gigatexels/s
145% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

96
384
300% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

16
32
100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

4
16
300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

485th of 586
421st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2015 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce GT 630 vs GeForce GT 740 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GT 740 GPU is faster than the GeForce GT 630 in gaming.

In addition, the GeForce GT 740 has a slightly lower TDP at 64 W when compared to the GeForce GT 630 at 65 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GT 740 over the GeForce GT 630.

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