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Nvidia GeForce GT 740
GPUBoss recommends the Nvidia GeForce GT 740 based on its benchmarks and compute performance.
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Expected June, 2013
Nvidia GeForce GT 740
- 993 MHz
- 1 GB GDDR5
7.2 Out of 10
by hassan-mujtaba (May, 2014)The core clock is maintained at 993 MHz for the reference models but comes with boost clock which has been absent on the GK107 chips.
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Released June, 2012
Leadtek GeForce GT 640
- 902 MHz
- 1 GB DDR3
6.3 Out of 10
by techPowerUp! (Jul, 2012)ZOTAC's cooler is a basic piece of metal, no fancy heatpipes.
GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of 740 vs 640 among Desktop GPUs
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 21 more | |
Graphics | |
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| T-Rex, Manhattan, Cloud Gate Factor, Sky Diver Factor and 1 more | |
Computing | |
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| Face Detection, Ocean Surface Simulation and 3 more | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
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| TDP, Idle Power Consumption, Load Power Consumption and 2 more | |
| 7.2 | Overall Score |
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| Much higher effective memory clock speed | 5,012 MHz | vs | 1,800 MHz | More than 2.8x higher effective memory clock speed | |||
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| Higher memory bandwidth | 80.2 GB/s | vs | 28.8 GB/s | More than 2.8x higher memory bandwidth | |||
| Higher clock speed | 993 MHz | vs | 902 MHz | More than 10% higher clock speed | |||
| Significantly higher memory clock speed | 1,253 MHz | vs | 900 MHz | Around 40% higher memory clock speed | |||
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| Better cloud gate factor score | 12.93 | vs | 11.96 | Around 10% better cloud gate factor score | |||
| Higher battlefield 4 framerate | 45 | vs | 30 | 50% higher battlefield 4 framerate | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of GeForce GT 740 vs 640
Bitcoin mining Data courtesy CompuBench
Face detection Data courtesy CompuBench
Ocean surface simulation Data courtesy CompuBench
Particle simulation Data courtesy CompuBench
Fire Strike Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
Sky Diver Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
Cloud Gate Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
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