NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 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 950 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1188MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (105.8GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 's Advantages

Lower TDP (64W vs 90W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950 +139%

1.825 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740

0.763 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950

VS

GeForce GT 740

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

May 2014

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1024 MHz

Base Clock

-

1188 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1653 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

105.8GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

-

768

Shading Units

384

48

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.02 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.944 GPixel/s

57.02 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

31.78 GTexel/s

-

1.825 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

762.6 GFLOPS

57.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

31.78 GFLOPS

Board Design

90W

TDP

64W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

GK107

GM206-250-A1

GPU Variant

GK107-425-A2

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

1.27 billion

228 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

5.2

CUDA

3.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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