NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 740A and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (14.40GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

336 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (12W vs 33W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 740A +430%

0.753 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520M

0.142 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740A

VS

GeForce GT 520M

Graphics Card

Aug 2013

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 700A

Generation

GeForce 500M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

1

384

Shading Units

48

32

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

7.840 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.480 GPixel/s

31.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.920 GTexel/s

-

752.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

142.1 GFLOPS

31.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

11.84 GFLOPS

Board Design

33W

TDP

12W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GK208

GPU Name

GF119

GT 740M

GPU Variant

N12P-GV-B-A1

Kepler 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.02 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

87 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.5

CUDA

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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