NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 740A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1038MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.3GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970M +252%

2.657 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740A

0.753 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M

VS

GeForce GT 740A

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Aug 2013

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 700A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

924 MHz

Base Clock

-

1038 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

120.3GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

1280

Shading Units

384

80

TMUs

32

48

ROPs

8

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

49.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.840 GPixel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

31.36 GTexel/s

-

2.657 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

752.6 GFLOPS

83.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

31.36 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

33W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GK208

N16E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

GT 740M

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Kepler 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

1.02 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

87 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

3.5

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

5.1

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