NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 740 and 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 64W)

Score

GeForce GT 740

VS

Quadro FX 550

Graphics Card

May 2014

Release Date

Apr 2006

GeForce 700

Generation

Quadro FX Curie

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

384

Shading Units

-

32

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

7.944 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.440 GPixel/s

31.78 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.880 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

762.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

31.78 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GK107

GPU Name

NV43

GK107-425-A2

GPU Variant

NV43 GL

Kepler

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

110 nm

1.27 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

118 mm²

Die Size

154 mm²

Board Design

64W

TDP

30W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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