NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 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 480 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (177.4GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

96 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 2 months late

Lower TDP (64W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480 +76%

1.345 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740

0.763 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

VS

GeForce GT 740

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

May 2014

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

924 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

177.4GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

-

15

SM Count

-

480

Shading Units

384

60

TMUs

32

48

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.944 GPixel/s

42.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

31.78 GTexel/s

-

1345 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

762.6 GFLOPS

168.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

31.78 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

64W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

GK107

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

GK107-425-A2

Fermi

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

1.27 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

2.0

CUDA

3.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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