GeForce GT 740 vs GeForce GTX 970

GeForce GT 740
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 May 2014
GeForce GT 740
GeForce GTX 970
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 19 Sep 2014
GeForce GTX 970

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GT 740
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 970
    341%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 740

84 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 970 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GTX 970

Around 241% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 970

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 970

The GeForce GTX 970 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 740GeForce GTX 970
GPU NameGK107 (GK107-425-A2)vsGM204 (GM204-200-A1)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size118 mm²vs398 mm²
Transistors1,270 millionvs5,200 million
Shaders384vs1664
Compute Units2vs13
Core clock993 MHzvs1050 MHz
ROPs16vs56
TMUs32vs104

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 740GeForce GTX 970
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
vs1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 740GeForce GTX 970
TDP64 wattsvs148 watts
Release Date29 May 2014vs19 Sep 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 740
    7.94 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 970
    58.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 740
    31.80 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 970
    109.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 740
    80.20 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 970
    224.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 740
    762.60 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 970
    3494.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GT 740
    4610
  • GeForce GTX 970
    15750

Points (higher is better)