NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260M and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 740A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (60.80GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
272 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (33W vs 65W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 260M
0.308 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 740A
+144%
0.753 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2009
Release Date
Aug 2013
GeForce 200M
Generation
GeForce 700A
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
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-
-
-
-
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950 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
60.80GB/s
Bandwidth
14.40GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
14
SM Count
-
112
Shading Units
384
56
TMUs
32
16
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
64 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
8.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
7.840 GPixel/s
30.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
31.36 GTexel/s
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-
-
308.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
752.6 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
31.36 GFLOPS
Board Design
65W
TDP
33W
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-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
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-
-
Graphics Processor
G92
GPU Name
GK208
N10E-GT
GPU Variant
GT 740M
Tesla
Architecture
Kepler 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
1.02 billion
324 mm²
Die Size
87 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.1
1.1
CUDA
3.5
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
