GeForce 9800 GT vs GeForce GT 740

GeForce 9800 GT
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Jul 2008
GeForce 9800 GT
GeForce GT 740
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 May 2014
GeForce GT 740

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    100%
  • GeForce GT 740
    351%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce 9800 GT

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 740

61 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce 9800 GT .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 251% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GT 740

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 740

The GeForce GT 740 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 9800 GTGeForce GT 740
GPU NameG92 (G92-270-A2)vsGK107 (GK107-425-A2)
Fab Process65 nmvs28 nm
Die Size324 mm²vs118 mm²
Transistors754 millionvs1,270 million
Shaders112vs384
Compute Units7vs2
Core clock600 MHzvs993 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs56vs32

Memory Configuration

GeForce 9800 GTGeForce GT 740
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 9800 GTGeForce GT 740
TDP125 wattsvs64 watts
Release Date21 Jul 2008vs29 May 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    9.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 740
    7.94 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    33.60 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 740
    31.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    57.60 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 740
    80.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    336.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 740
    762.60 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    1310
  • GeForce GT 740
    4610

Points (higher is better)