NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 3 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

1446 points
523% significantly better overall score
232 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

30 FPS
25 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
6 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS
19 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

19 FPS
15 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS
15 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
2 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

206.38 points
507% significantly higher Blender score
33.95 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

18285 points
557% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
2783 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

20012 points
457% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
3590 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

21753 points
510% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
3564 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19440 points
404% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
3852 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

19602 points
395% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
3955 points

Specifications

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit
200% significantly larger memory bus width
64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

120.3 GB/s
735% significantly higher memory bandwidth
14.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W
33 W
127% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

49.82 Gigapixels/s
535% significantly higher pixel rate
7.84 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

83.04 Gigatexels/s
164% significantly higher texture rate
31.36 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280
233% significantly more shading units
384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

80
150% significantly more texture mapping units
32

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
499% significantly more render output processors
8

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

238th of 586
406th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 October
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 970M vs GeForce GT 740M comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 970M beats the GeForce GT 740M in gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GT 740M has a significantly lower TDP at 33 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 970M 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 970M is faster than the GeForce GT 740M.

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