NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M, 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

3644 points
1470% significantly better overall score
232 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

72 FPS
67 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
6 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

59 FPS
55 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS
42 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS
45 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
2 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

558.86 points
1546% significantly higher Blender score
33.95 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

45558 points
1537% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
2783 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

47750 points
1230% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
3590 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53125 points
1390% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
3564 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50172 points
1202% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
3852 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49876 points
1161% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
3955 points

Specifications

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit
300% significantly larger memory bus width
64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256.30 GB/s
1679% significantly higher memory bandwidth
14.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W
33 W
354% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

107.7 Gigapixels/s
1273% significantly higher pixel rate
7.84 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

202 Gigatexels/s
544% significantly higher texture rate
31.36 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920
400% significantly more shading units
384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120
274% significantly more texture mapping units
32

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

64
700% significantly more render output processors
8

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

134th of 586
410th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June
2013 April

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

4.5
4.6

GeForce GTX 1070 vs GeForce GT 740M comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1070 GPU is faster than the GeForce GT 740M in gaming.

In addition, the GeForce GT 740M has a significantly lower TDP at 33 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1070 at 150 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 1070 over the GeForce GT 740M.

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