GeForce GT 740M vs GeForce 315M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 740M and 512MB VRAM GeForce 315M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GT 740M 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (14.40GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
368 additional rendering cores
GeForce 315M 's Advantages
Lower TDP (14W vs 33W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 740M
+1830%
753
GeForce 315M
39
Graphics Card
Jun 2013
Release Date
Jan 2011
GeForce 700M
Generation
GeForce 300M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
900 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
64bit
14.40GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
2
384
Shading Units
16
32
TMUs
8
8
ROPs
4
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
7.840 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.424 GPixel/s
31.36 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.848 GTexel/s
752.6 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
38.78 GFLOPS
31.36 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
33W
TDP
14W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
Graphics Processor
GK208
GPU Name
GT218
GT 740M
GPU Variant
N11M-GE
Kepler 2.0
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
1.02 billion
Transistors
0.26 billion
87 mm²
Die Size
57 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
Vulkan
N/A
3.5
CUDA
1.2
5.1
Shader Model
4.1
