NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 740M and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1140MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 740M

0.753 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile +520%

4.669 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740M

VS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

Graphics Card

Jun 2013

Release Date

Sep 2015

GeForce 700M

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1064 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1140 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

384

Shading Units

2048

32

TMUs

128

8

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

7.840 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

72.96 GPixel/s

31.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

145.9 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

752.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.669 TFLOPS

31.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

145.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK208

GPU Name

GM204

GT 740M

GPU Variant

N16E-GXX-A1

Kepler 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.02 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

87 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

33W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.3

3.5

CUDA

5.2

5.1

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

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