GeForce GT 740M vs 820M |
Released April, 2013
Nvidia GeForce GT 740M
- 810 MHz
- 2 GB DDR3
6.1 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 November, 2013
Nvidia GeForce 820M
- 625 MHz
- 1 GB DDR3
6.1 Out of 10
by Jarred-Walton (Apr, 2013)Besides the above slide, NVIDIA provided some performance estimates using results from the 3DMark 11 Performance benchmark, and the results are even more heavily in favor of NVIDIA.
GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of 740M vs 820M among Laptop GPUs
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| T-Rex, Manhattan, Cloud Gate Factor, Sky Diver Factor and 1 more | |
Computing | |
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| TDP, Idle Power Consumption, Load Power Consumption and 2 more | |
No winner declared
Too close to call
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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 | |||
| Much better T-Rex score | 3,341.1 | vs | 2,209.86 | More than 50% better T-Rex score | |||
| 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 | |||
| 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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