GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs GeForce GT 740

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
Memory: 2048Mb DDR4DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Mar 2018
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
GeForce GT 740
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 May 2014
GeForce GT 740

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

44 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GT 740 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 740

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 1030 DDR4

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4GeForce GT 740
GPU NameGP108 (GP108-310-A1)vsGK107 (GK107-425-A2)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size74 mm²vs118 mm²
Transistors1,800 millionvs1,270 million
Shaders384vs384
Compute Units3vs2
Core clock1152 MHzvs993 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs24vs32

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4GeForce GT 740
Memory TypeDDR4vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1050 MHz
2100 MHz effective
vs1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4GeForce GT 740
TDP20 wattsvs64 watts
Release Date12 Mar 2018vs29 May 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    22.06 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 740
    7.94 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    33.10 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 740
    31.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    16.80 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 740
    80.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    1059.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 740
    762.60 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better