NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 740A and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

272 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (33W vs 65W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (60.80GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 740A +144%

0.753 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260M

0.308 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740A

VS

GeForce GTX 260M

Graphics Card

Aug 2013

Release Date

Mar 2009

GeForce 700A

Generation

GeForce 200M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

950 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

60.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

14

384

Shading Units

112

32

TMUs

56

8

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

7.840 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.800 GPixel/s

31.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.80 GTexel/s

-

752.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

308.0 GFLOPS

31.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

33W

TDP

65W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GK208

GPU Name

G92

GT 740M

GPU Variant

N10E-GT

Kepler 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

1.02 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

87 mm²

Die Size

324 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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