GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs GeForce GT 740

GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Jan 2011
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
GeForce GT 740
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 May 2014
GeForce GT 740

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    101%
  • GeForce GT 740
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 560 Ti

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

106 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 560 Ti .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 560 TiGeForce GT 740
GPU NameGF114 (GF114-400-A1)vsGK107 (GK107-425-A2)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size332 mm²vs118 mm²
Transistors1,950 millionvs1,270 million
Shaders384vs384
Compute Units8vs2
Core clock823 MHzvs993 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs64vs32

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 560 TiGeForce GT 740
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1002 MHz
4008 MHz effective
vs1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 560 TiGeForce GT 740
TDP170 wattsvs64 watts
Release Date25 Jan 2011vs29 May 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    13.20 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 740
    7.94 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    52.70 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 740
    31.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    128.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 740
    80.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    1263.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 740
    762.60 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    4660
  • GeForce GT 740
    4610

Points (higher is better)