GeForce GTX 745 OEM vs GeForce GT 740

GeForce GTX 745 OEM
Memory: 4096Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Feb 2014
GeForce GTX 745 OEM
GeForce GT 740
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 May 2014
GeForce GT 740

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 745 OEM
    100%
  • GeForce GT 740
    146%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 745 OEM

Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 740

Around 46% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 745 OEMGeForce GT 740
GPU NameGM107 (GM107-300-A2)vsGK107 (GK107-425-A2)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size148 mm²vs118 mm²
Transistors1,870 millionvs1,270 million
Shaders384vs384
Compute Units3vs2
Core clock1033 MHzvs993 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs24vs32

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 745 OEMGeForce GT 740
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 745 OEMGeForce GT 740
TDP55 wattsvs64 watts
Release Date18 Feb 2014vs29 May 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 745 OEM
    16.50 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 740
    7.94 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 745 OEM
    24.80 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 740
    31.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 745 OEM
    28.80 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 740
    80.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 745 OEM
    793.30 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 740
    762.60 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 745 OEM
    3140
  • GeForce GT 740
    4610

Points (higher is better)