NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 240
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 740 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 240 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 6 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)
288 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (64W vs 69W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 740
+196%
0.763 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 240
0.257 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GT 740
+21%
516
GeForce GT 240
423
Graphics Card
May 2014
Release Date
Nov 2009
GeForce 700
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1253 MHz
Memory Clock
850 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
80.19GB/s
Bandwidth
54.40GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
12
384
Shading Units
96
32
TMUs
32
16
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
7.944 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.400 GPixel/s
31.78 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
17.60 GTexel/s
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-
-
762.6 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
257.3 GFLOPS
31.78 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
64W
TDP
69W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI
1x VGA
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GK107
GPU Name
GT215
GK107-425-A2
GPU Variant
GT215-450-A2
Kepler
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
1.27 billion
Transistors
0.727 billion
118 mm²
Die Size
144 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
3.0
CUDA
1.2
5.1
Shader Model
4.1
