GeForce GTX 460 vs GeForce GT 740 OEM

GeForce GTX 460
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Jul 2010
GeForce GTX 460
GeForce GT 740 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 14 Apr 2015
GeForce GT 740 OEM
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Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 460
    100%
  • GeForce GT 740 OEM
    130%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 460

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

95 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 460 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 30% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 OEM

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 740 OEM

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


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 460GeForce GT 740 OEM
GPU NameGF104 (GF104-300-KB-A1)vsGK106 ()
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size332 mm²vs221 mm²
Transistors1,950 millionvs2,540 million
Shaders336vs384
Compute Units7vs2
Core clock675 MHzvs1006 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs56vs32

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 460GeForce GT 740 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
3600 MHz effective
vs1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 460GeForce GT 740 OEM
TDP160 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date12 Jul 2010vs14 Apr 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 460
    9.45 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 740 OEM
    8.05 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 460
    37.80 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 740 OEM
    32.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 460
    115.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 740 OEM
    80.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 460
    907.20 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 740 OEM
    772.60 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 460
    3530
  • GeForce GT 740 OEM
    4610

Points (higher is better)