GeForce GT 740A vs GeForce GT 540M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 740A and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 540M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GT 740A 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 7 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
288 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (33W vs 35W)
GeForce GT 540M 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 740A
+191%
753
GeForce GT 540M
258
Graphics Card
Aug 2013
Release Date
Jan 2011
GeForce 700A
Generation
GeForce 500M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x8
Bus Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
Clock Speeds
900 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
DDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
14.40GB/s
Bandwidth
28.80GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
2
384
Shading Units
96
32
TMUs
16
8
ROPs
4
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
7.840 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.688 GPixel/s
31.36 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.75 GTexel/s
752.6 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
258.0 GFLOPS
31.36 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
21.50 GFLOPS
Board Design
33W
TDP
35W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
Graphics Processor
GK208
GPU Name
GF108
GT 740M
GPU Variant
N12P-GS-A1
Kepler 2.0
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
1.02 billion
Transistors
0.585 billion
87 mm²
Die Size
116 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
Vulkan
N/A
3.5
CUDA
2.1
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
