GeForce GT 740: specs and benchmarks

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GeForce GT 740 provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 3.84% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.

Summary

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 1.25 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 80.19 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics 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.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking705
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.19
Power efficiency4.11of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)
GPU code nameGK107
Market segmentDesktop
Release date29 May 2014 (10 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$89 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

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 cores384of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed993 MHzof 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Number of transistors1,270 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology28 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)64 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate31.78of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power0.7626 TFLOPSof 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs16of 192 (GRID A100A)
TMUs32of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & 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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16
Length145 mm
Width1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

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 typeGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width128 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed1253 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth80.19 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
HDMI+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.1
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL1.2
Vulkan1.1.126
CUDA3.0

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 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. 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 740 1478

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 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.

GT 740 4285

GeekBench 5 Vulkan

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 Vulkan API by AMD & Khronos Group.

GT 740 4192

GeekBench 5 CUDA

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 CUDA API by NVIDIA.

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.

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.

Closest competitors

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


GeForce GT 740 100
Radeon 550X 94.53
Radeon 540 93.49

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GT 740 is Radeon HD 4890, which is faster by 2% and higher by 4 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest AMD rivals to GeForce GT 740:

GeForce GT 740 100
Radeon 550X 94.53
Radeon 540 93.49

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Recommended processors

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Community ratings

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