NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 740 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 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 2 months late
Lower TDP (64W vs 365W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 's Advantages
More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)
128 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 740
0.763 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 590
+63%
1.244 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2014
Release Date
Mar 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
854 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1536MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
384bit
80.19GB/s
Bandwidth
164.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
16
384
Shading Units
512
32
TMUs
64
16
ROPs
48
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
7.944 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
19.46 GPixel/s
31.78 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.91 GTexel/s
-
-
-
762.6 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1244 GFLOPS
31.78 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
155.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
64W
TDP
365W
250 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.4a
Outputs
3x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GK107
GPU Name
GF110
GK107-425-A2
GPU Variant
GF110-351-A1
Kepler
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
1.27 billion
Transistors
3 billion
118 mm²
Die Size
520 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
2.0
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
