NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 740 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 +212%

2.413 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740 OEM

0.773 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 960 +293%

189

GeForce GT 740 OEM

48

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 960 +253%

46

GeForce GT 740 OEM

13

GeForce GTX 960

VS

GeForce GT 740 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Apr 2015

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

-

1024

Shading Units

384

64

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.048 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.19 GTexel/s

-

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

772.6 GFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

32.19 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

65W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

GK106

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

2.54 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

221 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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