NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740, 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

$ 206.47
$ 143.48 significantly less expensive
$ 349.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1456 points
583% significantly better overall score
213 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

31 FPS
26 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

21 FPS
18 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

22 FPS
18 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS
14 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
2 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

215.07 points
266% significantly higher Blender score
58.69 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

20616 points
524% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
3302 points
Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7834 points
237% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score
2320 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

22192 points
423% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
4243 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

21230 points
405% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
4201 points
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7834 points
239% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
2307 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21530 points
410% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
4221 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20196 points
371% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
4286 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

112.1 GB/s
39% slightly higher memory bandwidth
80.19 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W
64 W
17% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

44.54 Gigapixels/s
460% significantly higher pixel rate
7.94 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

66.82 Gigatexels/s
110% significantly higher texture rate
31.78 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

768
100% significantly more shading units
384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

48
49% significantly more texture mapping units
32

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
100% significantly more render output processors
16

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

237th of 586
424th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 October
2015 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs GeForce GT 740 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti GPU is faster than the GeForce GT 740 in gaming.

In addition, the GeForce GT 740 has a slightly lower TDP at 64 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti at 75 W. 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 GTX 1050 Ti over the GeForce GT 740.

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