NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 vs NVIDIA GeForce 940M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 vs NVIDIA GeForce 940M, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

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$ 349.95
$ 14.00
$ 335.95 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

213 points
325 points
52% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

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

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS
6 FPS
3 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

4 FPS
6 FPS
2 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

2 FPS
5 FPS
3 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

58.69 points
21% slightly higher Blender score
48.42 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

3302 points
5882 points
78% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4243 points
6193 points
45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4201 points
5469 points
30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4221 points
6264 points
48% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4286 points
5609 points
30% 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% slightly lower TDP
75 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

7.94 Gigapixels/s
17.57 Gigapixels/s
121% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

31.78 Gigatexels/s
35.14 Gigatexels/s
10% slightly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384
512
33% slightly more shading units

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
Identical
16

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

416th of 586
367th 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 940M specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GT 740 GPU is faster than the GeForce 940M in gaming.

In addition, the GeForce GT 740 has a slightly lower TDP at 64 W when compared to the GeForce 940M at 75 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 940M.

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