NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 490 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 490 's Advantages
More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)
96 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 's Advantages
Lower TDP (64W vs 365W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 490
+52%
1.166 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 740
0.763 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Unknown
Release Date
May 2014
GeForce 400
Generation
GeForce 700
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
854 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
Memory
1536MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
128bit
164.0GB/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
18.24 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
7.944 GPixel/s
36.48 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
31.78 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1166 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
762.6 GFLOPS
145.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
31.78 GFLOPS
Board Design
365W
TDP
64W
750 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
3x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.4a
2x 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
