GeForce 305M vs GeForce GT 740A
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 305M and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 740A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 305M 's Advantages
Lower TDP (14W vs 33W)
GeForce GT 740A 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 7 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (14.40GB/s vs 11.20GB/s)
368 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 305M
37
GeForce GT 740A
+1935%
753
Graphics Card
Jan 2010
Release Date
Aug 2013
GeForce 300M
Generation
GeForce 700A
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
700 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
64bit
11.20GB/s
Bandwidth
14.40GB/s
Render Config
2
SM Count
-
16
Shading Units
384
8
TMUs
32
4
ROPs
8
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
32 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
2.100 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
7.840 GPixel/s
4.200 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
31.36 GTexel/s
36.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
752.6 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
31.36 GFLOPS
Board Design
14W
TDP
33W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
Graphics Processor
GT218
GPU Name
GK208
N11M-LP1
GPU Variant
GT 740M
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
Kepler 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.26 billion
Transistors
1.02 billion
57 mm²
Die Size
87 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.1
1.2
CUDA
3.5
4.1
Shader Model
5.1
