GeForce GTX 950A vs GeForce GT 740 OEM

GeForce GTX 950A
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 13 Mar 2015
GeForce GTX 950A
GeForce GT 740 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 14 Apr 2015
GeForce GT 740 OEM
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Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 950A
    100%
  • GeForce GT 740 OEM
    104%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 950A

Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 740 OEM

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 950AGeForce GT 740 OEM
GPU NameGM107 (N16P-GT)vsGK106 ()
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size148 mm²vs221 mm²
Transistors1,870 millionvs2,540 million
Shaders640vs384
Compute Units5vs2
Core clock914 MHzvs1006 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs40vs32

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 950AGeForce GT 740 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
vs1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 950AGeForce GT 740 OEM
TDP75 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date13 Mar 2015vs14 Apr 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 950A
    14.62 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 740 OEM
    8.05 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 950A
    36.60 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 740 OEM
    32.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 950A
    64.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 740 OEM
    80.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 950A
    1169.90 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 740 OEM
    772.60 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 950A
    4410
  • GeForce GT 740 OEM
    4610

Points (higher is better)