GeForce GTX 960M vs GeForce GT 740

GeForce GTX 960M
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 13 Mar 2015
GeForce GTX 960M
GeForce GT 740
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 May 2014
GeForce GT 740

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 960M
    115%
  • GeForce GT 740
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 960M

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 15% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 740

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 960M

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 960M

The GeForce GTX 960M is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 960MGeForce GT 740
GPU NameGM107 (N16P-GX-A1)vsGK107 (GK107-425-A2)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size148 mm²vs118 mm²
Transistors1,870 millionvs1,270 million
Shaders640vs384
Compute Units5vs2
Core clock1097 MHzvs993 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs40vs32

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 960MGeForce GT 740
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
vs1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 960MGeForce GT 740
TDP75 wattsvs64 watts
Release Date13 Mar 2015vs29 May 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 960M
    17.55 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 740
    7.94 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 960M
    43.90 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 740
    31.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 960M
    80.20 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 740
    80.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 960M
    1404.20 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 740
    762.60 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 960M
    5320
  • GeForce GT 740
    4610

Points (higher is better)