GeForce GT 610 vs GeForce GT 740

GeForce GT 610
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 2 Apr 2012
GeForce GT 610
GeForce GT 740
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 May 2014
GeForce GT 740

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GT 610
    100%
  • GeForce GT 740
    853%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 610

Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 740

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 753% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GT 610GeForce GT 740
GPU NameGF119 (GF119-300-A1)vsGK107 (GK107-425-A2)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size79 mm²vs118 mm²
Transistors292 millionvs1,270 million
Shaders48vs384
Compute Units1vs2
Core clock810 MHzvs993 MHz
ROPs4vs16
TMUs8vs32

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 610GeForce GT 740
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed898 MHz
1796 MHz effective
vs1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 610GeForce GT 740
TDP29 wattsvs64 watts
Release Date2 Apr 2012vs29 May 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 610
    1.62 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 740
    7.94 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 610
    6.48 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 740
    31.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 610
    14.40 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 740
    80.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 610
    155.50 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 740
    762.60 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GT 610
    540
  • GeForce GT 740
    4610

Points (higher is better)