GeForce GTX 480 vs GeForce GT 740

GeForce GTX 480
Memory: 1536Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 26 Mar 2010
GeForce GTX 480
GeForce GT 740
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 May 2014
GeForce GT 740

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 480
    123%
  • GeForce GT 740
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 480

Around 23% higher average synthetic performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

186 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 480 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GTX 480

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 480

The GeForce GTX 480 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 480GeForce GT 740
GPU NameGF100 (GF100-375-A3)vsGK107 (GK107-425-A2)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size529 mm²vs118 mm²
Transistors3,100 millionvs1,270 million
Shaders480vs384
Compute Units15vs2
Core clock701 MHzvs993 MHz
ROPs48vs16
TMUs60vs32

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 480GeForce GT 740
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width384 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed924 MHz
3696 MHz effective
vs1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
Memory Size1536 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 480GeForce GT 740
TDP250 wattsvs64 watts
Release Date26 Mar 2010vs29 May 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 480
    21.00 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 740
    7.94 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 480
    42.10 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 740
    31.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 480
    177.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 740
    80.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 480
    1345.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 740
    762.60 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 480
    5700
  • GeForce GT 740
    4610

Points (higher is better)