NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2 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

$ 169.99
$ 179.96 significantly less expensive
$ 349.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1159 points
444% significantly better overall score
213 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

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

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

18 FPS
15 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS
14 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS
12 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
2 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

170.58 points
190% significantly higher Blender score
58.69 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

17206 points
421% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
3302 points
Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7823 points
237% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score
2320 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18573 points
337% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
4243 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17953 points
327% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
4201 points
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7823 points
239% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
2307 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17967 points
325% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
4221 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17163 points
300% 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

46.56 Gigapixels/s
486% significantly higher pixel rate
7.94 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

58.2 Gigatexels/s
83% significantly higher texture rate
31.78 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640
66% significantly more shading units
384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

40
25% slightly 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

254th of 586
416th 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 vs GeForce GT 740 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1050 graphics card is better than the GeForce GT 740 in our tests.

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

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1050 is faster than the GeForce GT 740.

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