NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 740M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 230M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

336 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

Lower TDP (23W vs 33W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 740M +610%

0.753 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230M

0.106 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740M

VS

GeForce GT 230M

Graphics Card

Jun 2013

Release Date

Jun 2009

GeForce 700M

Generation

GeForce 200M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

6

-

Compute Units

-

384

Shading Units

48

32

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

7.840 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

31.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

752.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

105.6 GFLOPS

31.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GK208

GPU Name

GT216

GT 740M

GPU Variant

N10P-GE-A2

Kepler 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.02 billion

Transistors

0.486 billion

87 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Board Design

33W

TDP

23W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.5

CUDA

1.2

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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