GMA 3150 vs GeForce GT 740

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	702	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.19	no data
Power efficiency	4.18	no data
Architecture	Kepler (2012−2018)	Generation 4.0 (2006−2007)
GPU code name	GK107	Pineview
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	29 May 2014 (10 years ago)	9 May 2007 (17 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$89	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	384	16
Core clock speed	993 MHz	400 MHz
Number of transistors	1,270 million	123 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	45 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	64 Watt	13 Watt
Texture fill rate	31.78	0.8
Floating-point processing power	0.7626 TFLOPS	0.0128 TFLOPS
ROPs	16	1
TMUs	32	2

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCI
Length	145 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	no data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	System Shared
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	System Shared
Memory bus width	128 Bit	System Shared
Memory clock speed	1253 MHz	System Shared
Memory bandwidth	80.19 GB/s	no data
Shared memory	-	+

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI	No outputs
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (11_0)	9.0c
Shader Model	5.1	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	2.0
OpenCL	1.2	N/A
Vulkan	1.1.126	N/A
CUDA	3.0	-

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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Pros & cons summary

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Recency	29 May 2014	9 May 2007
Chip lithography	28 nm	45 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	64 Watt	13 Watt

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