NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

204 points
232 points
13% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

5 FPS
6 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS
3 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

3 FPS
4 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

2 FPS
Identical
2 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

40.01 points
17% slightly higher Blender score
33.95 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

2743 points
2783 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3690 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
3590 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3447 points
3564 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3630 points
3852 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3735 points
3955 points
5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit
100% significantly larger memory bus width
64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

28.8 GB/s
100% significantly higher memory bandwidth
14.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

49 W
33 W
48% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

2.8 Gigapixels/s
7.84 Gigapixels/s
180% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

11.2 Gigatexels/s
31.36 Gigatexels/s
180% 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
8
100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

427th of 586
410th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 April
2013 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce GT 730 vs GeForce GT 740M comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GT 740M graphics card is better than the GeForce GT 730 in our tests.

In addition, the GeForce GT 740M has a significantly lower TDP at 33 W when compared to the GeForce GT 730 at 49 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GT 740M over the GeForce GT 730.

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