NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 740 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 1 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
336 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 's Advantages
Lower TDP (29W vs 64W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 740
+389%
0.763 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 520
0.156 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GT 740
+507%
516
GeForce GT 520
85
Graphics Card
May 2014
Release Date
Apr 2011
GeForce 700
Generation
GeForce 500
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
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
80.19GB/s
Bandwidth
14.40GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
1
384
Shading Units
48
32
TMUs
8
16
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
7.944 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.620 GPixel/s
31.78 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
6.480 GTexel/s
-
-
-
762.6 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
155.5 GFLOPS
31.78 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
12.96 GFLOPS
Board Design
64W
TDP
29W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GK107
GPU Name
GF119
GK107-425-A2
GPU Variant
GF119-300-A1
Kepler
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
1.27 billion
Transistors
0.292 billion
118 mm²
Die Size
79 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
Vulkan
N/A
3.0
CUDA
2.1
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
