NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 vs NVIDIA GeForce 920M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 vs NVIDIA GeForce 920M, 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

213 points
250 points
17% 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
0 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

4 FPS
Identical
4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

2 FPS
3 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

58.69 points
23% slightly higher Blender score
47.35 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

3302 points
19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
2766 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4243 points
22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
3462 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4201 points
30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
3215 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4221 points
13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
3725 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4286 points
11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
3845 points

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

80.19 GB/s
456% significantly higher memory bandwidth
14.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

64 W
33 W
93% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

7.94 Gigapixels/s
4% slightly higher pixel rate
7.63 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

31.78 Gigatexels/s
4% slightly higher texture rate
30.53 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384
Identical
384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

32
Identical
32

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

16
100% significantly more render output processors
8

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

426th of 586
399th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 April
2015 March

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 740 vs GeForce 920M specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce 920M graphics card is better than the GeForce GT 740 in our tests.

In addition, the GeForce 920M has a significantly lower TDP at 33 W when compared to the GeForce GT 740 at 64 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 920M over the GeForce GT 740.

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