NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 vs NVIDIA GeForce 930MX

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 vs NVIDIA GeForce 930MX, 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
9% slightly better overall score
195 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

5 FPS
Identical
5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS
4 FPS
1 FPS significantly 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
1 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

58.69 points
70.10 points
19% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

3302 points
5599 points
69% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4243 points
5764 points
35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4201 points
5367 points
27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4221 points
5680 points
34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4286 points
5044 points
17% 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

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
17 W
276% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

7.94 Gigapixels/s
8.16 Gigapixels/s
2% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

31.78 Gigatexels/s
29% slightly higher texture rate
24.48 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
33% slightly more texture mapping units
24

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

418th of 586
436th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 April
2016 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 930MX comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GT 740 GPU is faster than the GeForce 930MX in gaming.

In addition, the GeForce 930MX has a significantly lower TDP at 17 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 GT 740 over the GeForce 930MX.

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