NVIDIA started GeForce GT 740 sales 29 May 2014 at a recommended price of $89 . This is a Kepler architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 4 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 5.01 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 80.19 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is single-slot card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 145 mm. 1x 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 64 Watt.

General info

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

Place in performance ranking	662
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Value for money	0.18
Architecture	Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name	GK107
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	29 May 2014 (9 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)	$89
Current price	$279 (3.1x MSRP)	of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Technical specs

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

Pipelines / CUDA cores	384	of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed	993 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors	1,270 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	of 4 (Radeon 780M)
Power consumption (TDP)	64 Watt	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	31.78	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)
Floating-point performance	762.6 gflops	of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Size and compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce GT 740 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).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	145 mm
Width	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GT 740: 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	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	128 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	5012 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	80.19 GB/s	of 3276 (Aldebaran)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GT 740. 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	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
HDMI	+

API support

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

DirectX	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.1
OpenGL	4.6
OpenCL	1.2
Vulkan	1.1.126
CUDA	3.0

Benchmark performance

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

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance 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 740 3.84

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. 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.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

GT 740 1489

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.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

GT 740 1950

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.

Benchmark coverage: 9%

GT 740 4332

GeekBench 5 Vulkan

Benchmark coverage: 5%

GT 740 3844

GeekBench 5 CUDA

Benchmark coverage: 4%

GT 740 3273

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.

Benchmark coverage: 4%

GT 740 10

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce GT 740 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.

Relative performance

GeForce GT 740's performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop video cards.

Radeon R9 M275X 103.39

GeForce GTX 285 101.82

Radeon HD 4890 101.3

GeForce GT 740 100

Radeon 550X 98.18

Oland 95.31

GeForce GTX 275 95.05

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GT 740 is Radeon HD 4890, which is faster by 1% and higher by 3 positions in our ranking.