GeForce GTX 970 vs GeForce GT 740 OEM
Summary
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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 970
The GeForce GTX 970 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 970 | | GeForce GT 740 OEM | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GM204 (GM204-200-A1) | vs | GK106 () |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 398 mm² | vs | 221 mm² |
| Transistors | 5,200 million | vs | 2,540 million |
| Shaders | 1664 | vs | 384 |
| Compute Units | 13 | vs | 2 |
| Core clock | 1050 MHz | vs | 1006 MHz |
| ROPs | 56 | vs | 16 |
| TMUs | 104 | vs | 32 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 970 | | GeForce GT 740 OEM | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective | vs | 1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 4096 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 970 | | GeForce GT 740 OEM | |
|---|
| TDP | 148 watts | vs | 65 watts |
| Release Date | 19 Sep 2014 | vs | 14 Apr 2015 |
GeForce GTX 970
58.80 GP/s
GeForce GT 740 OEM
8.05 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 970
109.20 GT/s
GeForce GT 740 OEM
32.20 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 970
224.40 GB/s
GeForce GT 740 OEM
80.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 970
3494.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GT 740 OEM
772.60 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
GeForce GTX 970
15750
GeForce GT 740 OEM
4610
Points (higher is better)