NVIDIA started GeForce GT 740M sales 20 June 2013. This is a Kepler 2.0 architecture notebook card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 2 GB of DDR3 memory clocked at 0.9 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 14.4 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via PCIe 3.0 x8 interface. Power consumption is at 45 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce GT 740M: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking	872
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Power efficiency	4.46	of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
Architecture	Kepler 2.0 (2013−2015)
GPU code name	GK208
Market segment	Laptop
Release date	20 June 2013 (11 years ago)

Detailed specifications

GeForce GT 740M's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GT 740M's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	384	of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed	980 MHz	of 2800 MHz (Playstation 5 Pro GPU)
Boost clock speed	980 MHz	of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors	915 million	of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)	45 Watt	of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	31.36	of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power	0.7526 TFLOPS	of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs	8	of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs	32	of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce GT 740M and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Laptop size	medium sized
Bus support	PCI Express 3.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GT 740M: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	DDR3
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Standard memory configuration	DDR3/GDDR5
Memory bus width	64 Bit	of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	900 MHz	of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB/s	of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Shared memory	-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GT 740M. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors	No outputs
eDP 1.2 signal support	Up to 3840x2160
LVDS signal support	Up to 1920x1200
VGA аnalog display support	Up to 2048x1536
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support	Up to 3840x2160
HDMI	+
HDCP content protection	+
7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI	+
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming	+

Supported technologies

Technological solutions and APIs supported by GeForce GT 740M. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Blu-Ray 3D Support	+
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder	+
Optimus	+
3D Vision / 3DTV Play	+

API compatibility

APIs supported by GeForce GT 740M, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	12 API
Shader Model	5.1
OpenGL	4.5	of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCL	1.1
Vulkan	1.1.126
CUDA	+

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce GT 740M. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

GT 740M 2.06

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

GT 740M 796

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

GT 740M 1848

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

GT 740M 6591

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

GT 740M 1151

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

GT 740M 7403

GeekBench 5 OpenCL

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.

GT 740M 3882

GeekBench 5 Vulkan

GT 740M 3538

GeekBench 5 CUDA

GT 740M 2783

Unigine Heaven 3.0

This is an old DirectX 11 benchmark using Unigine, a 3D game engine by eponymous Russian company. It displays a fantasy medieval town sprawling over several flying islands. Version 3.0 was released in 2012, and in 2013 it was superseded by Heaven 4.0, which introduced several slight improvements, including a newer version of Unigine.

GT 740M 14

Octane Render OctaneBench

This is a special benchmark measuring graphics card performance in OctaneRender, which is a realistic GPU rendering engine by OTOY Inc., available either as a standalone program, or as a plugin for 3DS Max, Cinema 4D and many other apps. It renders four different static scenes, then compares render times with a reference GPU which is currently GeForce GTX 980. This benchmark has nothing to do with gaming and is aimed at professional 3D graphics artists.

GT 740M 10

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce GT 740M is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:

Full HD

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

4−5

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	7−8
Battlefield 5	1−2
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	5−6
Cyberpunk 2077	4−5
Far Cry 5	3−4
Far Cry New Dawn	5−6
Forza Horizon 4	8−9
Hitman 3	7−8
Horizon Zero Dawn	18−20
Red Dead Redemption 2	4−5
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	10−11
Watch Dogs: Legion	35−40

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	7−8
Battlefield 5	1−2
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	5−6
Cyberpunk 2077	4−5
Far Cry 5	3−4
Far Cry New Dawn	5−6
Forza Horizon 4	8−9
Hitman 3	7−8
Horizon Zero Dawn	18−20
Red Dead Redemption 2	4−5
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	10−11
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	22
Watch Dogs: Legion	35−40

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	7−8
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	5−6
Cyberpunk 2077	4−5
Far Cry 5	3−4
Forza Horizon 4	8−9
Hitman 3	7−8
Horizon Zero Dawn	18−20
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	10−11
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	4
Watch Dogs: Legion	35−40

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

4−5

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5	3−4
Far Cry New Dawn	3−4

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	2−3
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	1−2
Cyberpunk 2077	1−2
Far Cry 5	2−3
Hitman 3	7−8
Horizon Zero Dawn	6−7
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	1−2
Watch Dogs: Legion	10−12

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

5−6

4K
High Preset

Far Cry New Dawn

1−2

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	2−3
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	1−2
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	1−2
Far Cry 5	1−2
Watch Dogs: Legion	0−1

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

3−4

Closest competitors

GeForce GT 740M's performance relative to its closest rivals among notebook graphics cards.

Qualcomm Adreno 680 100.97

Radeon HD 7660G + HD 7670M Dual Graphics 100.97

Radeon R5 M435 100.97

GeForce GT 740M 100

Radeon 520 99.03

Radeon HD 8650M 99.03

GeForce 825M 98.54

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GT 740M is Radeon HD 8650M, which is slower by 1% and lower by 2 positions in our ranking.