NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 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 970 's Advantages
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 's Advantages
Lower TDP (64W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+413%
3.92 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 740
0.763 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 970
+606%
3646
GeForce GT 740
516
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 970
+824%
1683
GeForce GT 740
182
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
May 2014
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 700
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
-
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
80.19GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
-
-
1664
Shading Units
384
104
TMUs
32
56
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
2 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
7.944 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
31.78 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
762.6 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
31.78 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
64W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.4a
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
GK107
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
GK107-425-A2
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
1.27 billion
398 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
