NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M vs NVIDIA GeForce 830M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M vs NVIDIA GeForce 830M, 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

232 points
8% slightly better overall score
213 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

6 FPS
2 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
4 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
0 FPS slightly 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

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

2783 points
4342 points
56% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3590 points
4422 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3564 points
4078 points
14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3852 points
4410 points
14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3955 points
4078 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit
Identical
64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

14.4 GB/s
Identical
14.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

33 W
Identical
33 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

7.84 Gigapixels/s
9.2 Gigapixels/s
17% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

31.36 Gigatexels/s
70% significantly higher texture rate
18.4 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384
49% significantly more shading units
256

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

8
Identical
8

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

407th of 586
418th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 April
2014 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
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 740M vs GeForce 830M benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GT 740M beats the GeForce 830M in gaming performance.

In addition, both the GeForce GT 740M and the GeForce 830M have an identical TDP. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GT 740M over the GeForce 830M.

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