GeForce GTX 660 Ti vs GeForce GT 740

GeForce GTX 660 Ti
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 16 Aug 2012
GeForce GTX 660 Ti
GeForce GT 740
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 May 2014
GeForce GT 740

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    190%
  • GeForce GT 740
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 660 Ti

Around 90% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 740

86 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 660 Ti .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 660 Ti

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 660 Ti

The GeForce GTX 660 Ti is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 660 TiGeForce GT 740
GPU NameGK104 (GK104-300-KD-A2)vsGK107 (GK107-425-A2)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size294 mm²vs118 mm²
Transistors3,540 millionvs1,270 million
Shaders1344vs384
Compute Units7vs2
Core clock915 MHzvs993 MHz
ROPs24vs16
TMUs112vs32

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 660 TiGeForce GT 740
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
vs1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 660 TiGeForce GT 740
TDP150 wattsvs64 watts
Release Date16 Aug 2012vs29 May 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    25.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 740
    7.94 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    102.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 740
    31.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    144.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 740
    80.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    2460.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 740
    762.60 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    8790
  • GeForce GT 740
    4610

Points (higher is better)