GeForce GTX 970 vs GeForce GT 740 OEM

GeForce GTX 970
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 19 Sep 2014
GeForce GTX 970
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 970
    341%
  • GeForce GT 740 OEM
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 970

Around 241% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 OEM

83 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 970 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 970

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 970

The GeForce GTX 970 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 970GeForce GT 740 OEM
GPU NameGM204 (GM204-200-A1)vsGK106 ()
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size398 mm²vs221 mm²
Transistors5,200 millionvs2,540 million
Shaders1664vs384
Compute Units13vs2
Core clock1050 MHzvs1006 MHz
ROPs56vs16
TMUs104vs32

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 970GeForce GT 740 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective
vs1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 970GeForce GT 740 OEM
TDP148 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date19 Sep 2014vs14 Apr 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 970
    58.80 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 740 OEM
    8.05 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 970
    109.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 740 OEM
    32.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 970
    224.40 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 740 OEM
    80.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 970
    3494.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 740 OEM
    772.60 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 970
    15750
  • GeForce GT 740 OEM
    4610

Points (higher is better)