GeForce GT 740M vs GeForce 920A

GeForce GT 740M
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 20 Jun 2013
GeForce GT 740M
GeForce 920A
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 13 Mar 2015
GeForce 920A

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GT 740M
    107%
  • GeForce 920A
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 740M

Around 7% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce 920A

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 740M

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 740M

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


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 740MGeForce 920A
GPU NameGK208 (GT 740M)vsGK208 (N16V-GM)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size87 mm²vs87 mm²
Transistorsunknownvsunknown
Shaders384vs384
Compute Units2vs2
Core clock980 MHzvs575 MHz
ROPs8vs8
TMUs16vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 740MGeForce 920A
Memory TypeDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 740MGeForce 920A
TDP33 wattsvs33 watts
Release Date20 Jun 2013vs13 Mar 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 740M
    7.84 GP/s
  • GeForce 920A
    4.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 740M
    15.68 GT/s
  • GeForce 920A
    9.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 740M
    14.40 GB/s
  • GeForce 920A
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 740M
    752.60 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 920A
    441.60 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GT 740M
    1860
  • GeForce 920A
    1730

Points (higher is better)

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