Graphics card comparison
GeForce GT 740 vs GeForce GT 730
Nvidia
GeForce GT 740
1024 Mb GDDR5
Released 29 May 2014
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VS
Nvidia
GeForce GT 730
1024 Mb DDR3
Released 18 Jun 2014
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Summary
Reasons to consider the GeForce GT 740
- Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
- Supports PhysX
- Supports G-Sync
- Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
- Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications
Reasons to consider the GeForce GT 730
- Supports PhysX
- Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
Our verdict
HWSpot recommends the GeForce GT 740
Based on theoretical specifications.
Specifications
Core configuration
| GeForce GT 740 | GeForce GT 730 |
|---|
| GPU Name | GK107 (GK107-425-A2) | GF108 (GF108-400-A1) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 118 mm² | 116 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,270 million | 585 million |
| Shaders | 384 | 96 |
| Compute Units | 2 | 2 |
| Core clock | 993 MHz | 700 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | 4 |
| TMUs | 32 | 16 |
Memory configuration
| GeForce GT 740 | GeForce GT 730 |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | DDR3 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GT 740 | GeForce GT 730 |
|---|
| TDP | 64 watts | 49 watts |
| Release Date | 29 May 2014 | 18 Jun 2014 |
Raw performance comparison
Pixel Rate
- GeForce GT 7407.94 GP/s
- GeForce GT 7302.80 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Texel Rate
- GeForce GT 74031.80 GT/s
- GeForce GT 73011.20 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Memory bandwidth
- GeForce GT 74080.20 GB/s
- GeForce GT 73028.80 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Single precision performance
- GeForce GT 740762.60 GFLOPs
- GeForce GT 730268.80 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better