GeForce GTX 1050 vs GeForce GT 740
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1050 |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Supports G-Sync |
| Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1050
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 1050 | | GeForce GT 740 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GP107 (GP107-300-A1) | vs | GK107 (GK107-425-A2) |
| Fab Process | 14 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 132 mm² | vs | 118 mm² |
| Transistors | 3,300 million | vs | 1,270 million |
| Shaders | 640 | vs | 384 |
| Compute Units | 5 | vs | 2 |
| Core clock | 1354 MHz | vs | 993 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 16 |
| TMUs | 40 | vs | 32 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 1050 | | GeForce GT 740 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1752 MHz
7008 MHz effective | vs | 1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 1050 | | GeForce GT 740 | |
|---|
| TDP | 75 watts | vs | 64 watts |
| Release Date | 25 Oct 2016 | vs | 29 May 2014 |
GeForce GTX 1050
43.30 GP/s
GeForce GT 740
7.94 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 1050
54.20 GT/s
GeForce GT 740
31.80 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 1050
112.10 GB/s
GeForce GT 740
80.20 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 1050
1733.10 GFLOPs
GeForce GT 740
762.60 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better