NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 730M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 730M, 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
Identical
213 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

5 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate
5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS
Identical
3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

4 FPS
1 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
3 FPS

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)

58.69 points
54% significantly higher Blender score
37.93 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

3302 points
34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
2459 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4243 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
3437 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4201 points
38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
3025 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4221 points
29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
3269 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4286 points
21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
3524 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
38% slightly higher pixel rate
5.75 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

31.78 Gigatexels/s
38% slightly higher texture rate
23.01 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

416th of 586
417th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 April
2014 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 GT 730M comparison

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

In addition, the GeForce GT 730M 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.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GT 730M is faster than the GeForce GT 740.

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