NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 740 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 8 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 896GB)
168 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (64W vs 182W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 740
+42%
0.763 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 260 Core 216
0.536 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2014
Release Date
Sep 2008
GeForce 700
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1253 MHz
Memory Clock
999 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
896MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
448bit
80.19GB/s
Bandwidth
111.9GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
27
384
Shading Units
216
32
TMUs
72
16
ROPs
28
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
224 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
7.944 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.13 GPixel/s
31.78 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
41.47 GTexel/s
-
-
-
762.6 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
536.5 GFLOPS
31.78 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
67.07 GFLOPS
Board Design
64W
TDP
182W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GK107
GPU Name
GT200
GK107-425-A2
GPU Variant
G200-103-A2
Kepler
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
65 nm
1.27 billion
Transistors
1.4 billion
118 mm²
Die Size
576 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
1.3
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
