NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 740A and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280M 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)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (33W vs 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M 's Advantages

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

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 740A +101%

0.753 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280M

0.374 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740A

VS

GeForce GTX 280M

Graphics Card

Aug 2013

Release Date

Mar 2009

GeForce 700A

Generation

GeForce 200M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-IV

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

16

384

Shading Units

128

32

TMUs

64

8

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

7.840 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.360 GPixel/s

31.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.44 GTexel/s

-

752.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

374.5 GFLOPS

31.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

33W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GK208

GPU Name

G92

GT 740M

GPU Variant

N10E-GTX

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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