GPU Comparison

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M

CORE STATE GK208

VRAM 2 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1033 MHz

TDP 33 W

BUS WIDTH 64 bit

ARCHITECTURE Kepler 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2013

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce GTX 980

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1216 MHz

TDP 165 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

3,851

33,457

geekbench_vulkan

3,514

38,172

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

474

geekbench_metal

N/A

15,163

passmark_directx_10

N/A

53

passmark_directx_11

N/A

83

passmark_directx_12

N/A

46

passmark_directx_9

N/A

164

passmark_g2d

N/A

792

passmark_g3d

N/A

11,095

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

4,753

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GT 740M

GTX 980

Core Specs

Shading Units

384

2,048 +433.3%

Shaders

384

2,048 +433.3%

TMUs

32

128 +300.0%

ROPs

8

64 +700.0%

Clocks

Base Clock

980 MHz

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

1033 MHz

1216 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz 1800 Mbps effective

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

2 GB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

2,048

4,096 +100.0%

Memory Type

DDR3

GDDR5

Memory Bus

64 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

14.40 GB/s

224.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

512 KB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

8.264 GPixel/s

77.82 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

33.06 GTexel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

793.3 GFLOPS

4.981 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

33.06 GFLOPS (1:24)

155.6 GFLOPS (1:32)

Power

TDP

33 W

165 W

TDP (W)

33

165 +400.0%

Suggested PSU

—

450 W

Power Connectors

None

2x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Kepler 2.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

GK208

GM204

Generation

GeForce 700M

GeForce 900

Process Size

28 nm

28 nm

Transistors

1,020 million

5,200 million

Die Size

87 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

11.7M / mm²

13.1M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.2.175

1.4

OpenCL

3.0

3.0

CUDA

3.5

5.2

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

MXM Module

Dual-slot

Length

—

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

—

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

—

549 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 600M

GeForce 700

Successor

GeForce 800M

GeForce 10

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