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NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 740 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 Low Power to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 's Advantages
Lower TDP (64W vs 75W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1190MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (105.8GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)
384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 740
0.763 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 950 Low Power +139%
1.828 TFLOPS

Graphics Card

May 2014
Release Date
Mar 2016
GeForce 700
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-
Base Clock
1026 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1190 MHz
1253 MHz
Memory Clock
1653 MHz

Memory

1024MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
80.19GB/s
Bandwidth
105.8GB/s

Render Config

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-
-
-
-
-
384
Shading Units
768
32
TMUs
48
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

7.944 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
38.08 GPixel/s
31.78 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
57.12 GTexel/s
-
-
-
762.6 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.828 TFLOPS
31.78 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
57.12 GFLOPS

Board Design

64W
TDP
75W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None

Graphics Processor

GK107
GPU Name
GM206
GK107-425-A2
GPU Variant
GM206-251-A1
Kepler
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.27 billion
Transistors
2.94 billion
118 mm²
Die Size
228 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.1
Vulkan
1.3
3.0
CUDA
5.2
5.1
Shader Model
6.4
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