GeForce GTX 460 SE vs GeForce GT 740

GeForce GTX 460 SE
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Nov 2010
GeForce GTX 460 SE
GeForce GT 740
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 May 2014
GeForce GT 740
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Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 460 SE
    100%
  • GeForce GT 740
    149%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 460 SE

Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 740

86 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 460 SE .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 49% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GTX 460 SEGeForce GT 740
GPU NameGF104 (GF104-225-A1)vsGK107 (GK107-425-A2)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size332 mm²vs118 mm²
Transistors1,950 millionvs1,270 million
Shaders288vs384
Compute Units6vs2
Core clock650 MHzvs993 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs48vs32

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 460 SEGeForce GT 740
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed850 MHz
3400 MHz effective
vs1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 460 SEGeForce GT 740
TDP150 wattsvs64 watts
Release Date15 Nov 2010vs29 May 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 460 SE
    7.80 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 740
    7.94 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 460 SE
    31.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 740
    31.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 460 SE
    109.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 740
    80.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 460 SE
    748.80 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 740
    762.60 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 460 SE
    3080
  • GeForce GT 740
    4610

Points (higher is better)