GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of 740M vs 820M among Laptop GPUs

Gaming

GeForce GT 740M
5.1
GeForce 820M
5.0
GeForce 840M
5.2
Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 21 more

Graphics

GeForce GT 740M
6.9
GeForce 820M
7.6
GeForce 840M
8.1
T-Rex, Manhattan, Cloud Gate Factor, Sky Diver Factor and 1 more

Computing

GeForce GT 740M
4.6
GeForce 820M
4.4
GeForce 840M
5.1
Face Detection, Ocean Surface Simulation and 3 more

Performance per Watt

GeForce GT 740M
3.5
GeForce 820M
5.1
GeForce 840M
5.1
Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more

Value

GeForce GT 740M
2.2
GeForce 820M
6.8
GeForce 840M
3.7
Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more

Noise and Power

GeForce GT 740M
9.4
GeForce 820M
10.0
GeForce 840M
9.6
TDP, Idle Power Consumption, Load Power Consumption and 2 more
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Overall Score

GeForce GT 740M
4.9
GeForce 820M
6.0
GeForce 840M
5.8

Winner
Nvidia GeForce GT 740M 

GPUBoss recommends the Nvidia GeForce GT 740M  based on its gaming, benchmarks and compute performance.

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Differences What are the advantages of each

Front view of GeForce GT 740M

Reasons to consider the
Nvidia GeForce GT 740M

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Much better 3DMark06 score 10,161 vs 1,266.5 More than 8x better 3DMark06 score
Higher clock speed 810 MHz vs 625 MHz Around 30% higher clock speed
Much higher dead space 3 framerate 33.95 fps vs 21.7 fps More than 55% higher dead space 3 framerate
More memory 2,048 MB vs 1,024 MB 2x more memory
Much higher hitman: absolution framerate 6.35 vs 4.9 Around 30% higher hitman: absolution framerate
Significantly higher diablo III framerate 46.2 fps vs 33.9 fps More than 35% higher diablo III framerate
Slightly higher texture rate 25.92 GTexel/s vs 10 GTexel/s More than 2.5x higher texture rate
Better particle simulation score 158.65 mInteraction/s vs 74.26 mInteraction/s Around 2.2x better particle simulation score
More render output processors 16 vs 8 Twice as many render output processors
Wider memory bus 128 bit vs 64 bit 2x wider memory bus
More shading units 384 vs 96 288 more shading units
More texture mapping units 32 vs 16 Twice as many texture mapping units
Front view of GeForce 820M

Reasons to consider the
Nvidia GeForce 820M

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Better 3DMark 11 graphics score 7,518 vs 1,873 More than 4x better 3DMark 11 graphics score
Better manhattan score 3,533.46 vs 2,901.63 More than 20% better manhattan score
Lower TDP 15W vs 45W 3x lower TDP

Benchmarks Real world tests of GeForce GT 740M vs 820M

Bitcoin mining Data courtesy CompuBench

GeForce GT 740M
44.7 mHash/s
GeForce 820M
23.26 mHash/s

Face detection Data courtesy CompuBench

GeForce GT 740M
9.37 mPixels/s
GeForce 820M
7.69 mPixels/s

T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench

GeForce GT 740M
3,334
GeForce 820M
3,352.98

Manhattan (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench

GeForce GT 740M
2,901.63
GeForce 820M
3,533.46

Fire Strike Factor Data courtesy FutureMark

GeForce GT 740M
10.29
GeForce 820M
7.57

Sky Diver Factor Data courtesy FutureMark

GeForce GT 740M
101.71
GeForce 820M
66.09

Bioshock Infinite

GeForce GT 740M
9.2
GeForce 820M
8.1

Hitman: Absolution

GeForce GT 740M
6.35
GeForce 820M
4.9

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Comments

Showing 8 comments.
Justasxz (11:11 PM, August 30, 2016)
gpu rams dont effect performance at all.
Apratim Seth (06:00 AM, June 2, 2015)
gt 820m and gt 820m 2gb has basically the same score
templarian (04:42 PM, January 16, 2015)
What toshiba?
Pykun (01:11 PM, October 17, 2014)
what? i have gt 820m 2gb, not 1gb.
adam (05:34 AM, August 3, 2014)
Was going to get 800$ msi laptop with 820m but after this went with a toshiba with the exact same specs but with a 740m for 700$ thanks aloe rlly appreciate it u guys are badass:-)
chrischoy9 . (10:15 AM, June 30, 2014)
Same shit. It isn't going to make a difference since those benchmarks don't even take up that much resource
Vishal (05:18 AM, June 9, 2014)
hey whats about 2GB of 820M
yash (03:26 PM, May 21, 2014)
Gt 740m 2gb vs gt 820m 1gb unfare make it 2gb
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