NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A

NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 740A and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8400M GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (14.40GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

368 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (11W vs 33W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 740A +2796%

0.753 TFLOPS

GeForce 8400M GS

0.026 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740A

VS

GeForce 8400M GS

Graphics Card

Aug 2013

Release Date

May 2007

GeForce 700A

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-I

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

384

Shading Units

16

32

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

16 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

7.840 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.600 GPixel/s

31.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.200 GTexel/s

-

752.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

25.60 GFLOPS

31.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

33W

TDP

11W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GK208

GPU Name

G86

GT 740M

GPU Variant

NB8M-GS

Kepler 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.02 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

87 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.5

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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