GeForce GT 740M vs GeForce GT 730

GeForce GT 740M
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 20 Jun 2013
GeForce GT 740M
GeForce GT 730
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2014
GeForce GT 730

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 740M

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 730

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GT 740M

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 740M

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 740MGeForce GT 730
GPU NameGK208 (GT 740M)vsGF108 (GF108-400-A1)
Fab Process28 nmvs40 nm
Die Size87 mm²vs116 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs585 million
Shaders384vs96
Compute Units2vs2
Core clock980 MHzvs700 MHz
ROPs8vs4
TMUs16vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 740MGeForce GT 730
Memory TypeDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 740MGeForce GT 730
TDP33 wattsvs49 watts
Release Date20 Jun 2013vs18 Jun 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 740M
    7.84 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 730
    2.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 740M
    15.68 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 730
    11.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 740M
    14.40 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 730
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 740M
    752.60 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 730
    268.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better