NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 740 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1455MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.1GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 's Advantages

Lower TDP (64W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1050 +144%

1.862 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740

0.763 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050

VS

GeForce GT 740

Graphics Card

Oct 2016

Release Date

May 2014

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1354 MHz

Base Clock

-

1455 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1752 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.1GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

-

5

SM Count

-

640

Shading Units

384

40

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

46.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.944 GPixel/s

58.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

31.78 GTexel/s

29.10 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1.862 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

762.6 GFLOPS

58.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

31.78 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

64W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP107

GPU Name

GK107

GP107-300-A1

GPU Variant

GK107-425-A2

Pascal

Architecture

Kepler

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.3 billion

Transistors

1.27 billion

132 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

6.1

CUDA

3.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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