NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 349.95
$ 110.13 significantly less expensive
$ 460.08

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

213 points
43% significantly better overall score
148 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

5 FPS
1 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
4 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
2 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

4 FPS
1 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
2 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

2 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate
2 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

3302 points
118% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
1514 points
Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

2320 points
72% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score
1343 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4243 points
78% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
2372 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4201 points
77% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
2361 points
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

2307 points
122% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
1035 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4221 points
81% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
2331 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4286 points
28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
3346 points

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

80.19 GB/s
181% significantly higher memory bandwidth
28.51 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

64 W
50 W
28% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

7.94 Gigapixels/s
100% significantly higher pixel rate
3.97 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

31.78 Gigatexels/s
100% significantly higher texture rate
15.89 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384
100% significantly more shading units
192

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

32
100% significantly more texture mapping units
16

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

16
Identical
16

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

418th of 586
469th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 April
2017 October

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 GT 720 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GT 740 GPU is faster than the GeForce GT 720 in gaming.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GT 740 is better than the GeForce GT 720.

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