GeForce GT 710 vs GeForce GT 740

GeForce GT 710
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Mar 2014
GeForce GT 710
GeForce GT 740
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 May 2014
GeForce GT 740

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GT 710
    100%
  • GeForce GT 740
    415%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 710

45 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 740

Around 315% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 710GeForce GT 740
GPU NameGK208 ()vsGK107 (GK107-425-A2)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size87 mm²vs118 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs1,270 million
Shaders192vs384
Compute Units1vs2
Core clock954 MHzvs993 MHz
ROPs8vs16
TMUs16vs32

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 710GeForce GT 740
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 710GeForce GT 740
TDP19 wattsvs64 watts
Release Date27 Mar 2014vs29 May 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 710
    3.82 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 740
    7.94 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 710
    15.26 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 740
    31.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 710
    14.40 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 740
    80.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 710
    366.30 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 740
    762.60 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GT 710
    1110
  • GeForce GT 740
    4610

Points (higher is better)