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Nvidia GeForce GT 740M
GPUBoss recommends the Nvidia GeForce GT 740M based on its gaming, benchmarks and compute performance.
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GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of 740M vs 820M among Laptop GPUs
Gaming | |
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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 | |
Performance per Watt | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
Value | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
Noise and Power | |
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| TDP, Idle Power Consumption, Load Power Consumption and 2 more | |
| 5.9 | Overall Score |
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| Much better 3DMark06 score | 10,161 | vs | 1,266.5 | More than 8x better 3DMark06 score | |||
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| 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 | |||
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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 | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of GeForce GT 740M vs 820M
Bitcoin mining Data courtesy CompuBench
Face detection Data courtesy CompuBench
T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Manhattan (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Fire Strike Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
Sky Diver Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
Bioshock Infinite
Hitman: Absolution
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