NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 740M and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

96 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (33W vs 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 740M +22%

0.753 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470M

0.616 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740M

VS

GeForce GTX 470M

Graphics Card

Jun 2013

Release Date

Sep 2010

GeForce 700M

Generation

GeForce 400M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1536MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

192bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

6

-

Compute Units

-

384

Shading Units

288

32

TMUs

48

8

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

Theoretical Performance

7.840 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.420 GPixel/s

31.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.68 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

752.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

616.3 GFLOPS

31.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

51.36 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK208

GPU Name

GF104

GT 740M

GPU Variant

N11E-GT

Kepler 2.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.02 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

87 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Board Design

33W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.5

CUDA

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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