HD Graphics 4600 (Haswell GT2) vs GeForce GT 740

HD Graphics 4600 (Haswell GT2)
Memory: 0Mb System SharedDESKTOP
Release date: 3 Jun 2013
HD Graphics 4600 (Haswell GT2)
GeForce GT 740
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 May 2014
GeForce GT 740

Summary

Reasons to consider HD Graphics 4600 (Haswell GT2)

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 740

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

HD Graphics 4600 (Haswell GT2)GeForce GT 740
GPU NameHaswell GT2 ()vsGK107 (GK107-425-A2)
Fab Process22 nmvs28 nm
Die Size177 mm²vs118 mm²
Transistors392 millionvs1,270 million
Shaders20vs384
Compute Units0vs2
Core clock400 MHzvs993 MHz
ROPs2vs16
TMUs4vs32

Memory Configuration

HD Graphics 4600 (Haswell GT2)GeForce GT 740
Memory TypeSystem SharedvsGDDR5
Bus WidthSystem Sharedvs128 bit
Memory SpeedSystem Sharedvs1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
Memory Size0 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

HD Graphics 4600 (Haswell GT2)GeForce GT 740
TDP45 wattsvs64 watts
Release Date3 Jun 2013vs29 May 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • HD Graphics 4600 (Haswell GT2)
    5.40 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 740
    7.94 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • HD Graphics 4600 (Haswell GT2)
    10.80 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 740
    31.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • HD Graphics 4600 (Haswell GT2)
    0.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 740
    80.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • HD Graphics 4600 (Haswell GT2)
    432.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 740
    762.60 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better