GeForce GTX 970 vs GeForce GT 740 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 740 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
GeForce GT 740 OEM 's Advantages
Released 7 months late
Lower TDP (65W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+407%
3920
GeForce GT 740 OEM
773
Blender
GeForce GTX 970
+535%
305
GeForce GT 740 OEM
48
OctaneBench
GeForce GTX 970
+492%
77
GeForce GT 740 OEM
13
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Apr 2015
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 700
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
-
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
80.19GB/s
Render Config
1664
Shading Units
384
104
TMUs
32
56
ROPs
16
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
2 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
8.048 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
32.19 GTexel/s
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
772.6 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
32.19 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
65W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
GK106
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
-
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
2.54 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
221 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.1
5.2
CUDA
3.0
6.4
Shader Model
5.1
