NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 740 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
272 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (64W vs 125W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 740
+127%
0.763 TFLOPS
GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
0.336 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2014
Release Date
Feb 2008
GeForce 700
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1253 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
80.19GB/s
Bandwidth
57.60GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
14
384
Shading Units
112
32
TMUs
56
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
7.944 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
31.78 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
762.6 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
336.0 GFLOPS
31.78 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
64W
TDP
125W
250 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GK107
GPU Name
G92
GK107-425-A2
GPU Variant
G92-270-A2
Kepler
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
65 nm
1.27 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
118 mm²
Die Size
324 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
Vulkan
N/A
3.0
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
