GeForce GT 740A vs GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 740A and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GT 740A 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 10 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
352 additional rendering cores
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.34GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
Lower TDP (23W vs 33W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 740A
+841%
753
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
80
Graphics Card
Aug 2013
Release Date
Oct 2008
GeForce 700A
Generation
GeForce 9M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x8
Bus Interface
MXM-II
Clock Speeds
900 MHz
Memory Clock
792 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
14.40GB/s
Bandwidth
25.34GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
4
384
Shading Units
32
32
TMUs
16
8
ROPs
8
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
7.840 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.000 GPixel/s
31.36 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.000 GTexel/s
752.6 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
80.00 GFLOPS
31.36 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
33W
TDP
23W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
Graphics Processor
GK208
GPU Name
G96C
GT 740M
GPU Variant
NB9P-GS
Kepler 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
55 nm
1.02 billion
Transistors
0.314 billion
87 mm²
Die Size
121 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
Vulkan
N/A
3.5
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
