NVIDIA started GeForce GT 740M sales 1 March 2013. This is a Kepler architecture notebook card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 2 GB of DDR3 memory clocked at 1.6 GHz are supplied, and together with 64/128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 14.4 GB/s.

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

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 2.04% of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.

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General info

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

Place in performance ranking	836
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Value for money	0.16
Architecture	Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name	N14P-GV2, ...
Market segment	Laptop
Release date	1 March 2013 (11 years old)
Current price	$310	of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Technical specs

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 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed	810 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed	980 MHz	of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors	915 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	of 4 (H100 PCIe)
Power consumption (TDP)	45 Watt	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	31.36	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)
Floating-point performance	752.6 gflops	of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Size and compatibility

Information on GeForce GT 740M's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

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

Memory

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 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Standard memory configuration	DDR3/GDDR5
Memory bus width	64/128 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	1600 - 1800 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB/s	of 3276 (Aldebaran)
Shared memory	-

Video outputs and ports

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	+

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 support

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 GTX 1080 Mobile)
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 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 740M 2.04

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 740M 791

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.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

GT 740M 6591

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.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

GT 740M 1848

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 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.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

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.

Benchmark coverage: 9%

GT 740M 3837

GeekBench 5 Vulkan

Benchmark coverage: 5%

GT 740M 3538

GeekBench 5 CUDA

Benchmark coverage: 4%

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.

Benchmark coverage: 4%

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.

Benchmark coverage: 4%

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

Performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

5−6

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	2−3
Battlefield 5	3−4
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	10−12
Cyberpunk 2077	5−6
Far Cry 5	2−3
Far Cry New Dawn	1−2
Forza Horizon 4	4−5
Hitman 3	3−4
Horizon Zero Dawn	3−4
Red Dead Redemption 2	5−6
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	8−9

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	2−3
Battlefield 5	3−4
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	10−12
Cyberpunk 2077	5−6
Far Cry 5	2−3
Far Cry New Dawn	1−2
Forza Horizon 4	4−5
Hitman 3	3−4
Horizon Zero Dawn	3−4
Metro Exodus	3−4
Red Dead Redemption 2	5−6
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	8−9
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	7

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	2−3
Battlefield 5	3−4
Cyberpunk 2077	5−6
Far Cry 5	2−3
Far Cry New Dawn	1−2
Forza Horizon 4	4−5
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	4

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	4−5
Hitman 3	5−6
Horizon Zero Dawn	9−10
Metro Exodus	0−1
Red Dead Redemption 2	1−2
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	6−7

1440p
Ultra Preset

Cyberpunk 2077	1−2
Far Cry 5	3−4
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	2−3

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	2−3
Hitman 3	2−3
Horizon Zero Dawn	7−8
Red Dead Redemption 2	1−2

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	1−2
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	0−1
Far Cry 5	3−4
Far Cry New Dawn	5−6

Relative perfomance

Overall GeForce GT 740M performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook video cards.

Radeon R8 M445DX 100.98

Radeon HD 7660G + HD 7670M Dual Graphics 100

Iris Graphics 6100 100

GeForce GT 740M 100

Radeon 520 99.51

GeForce 825M 99.02

Radeon HD 8550G + HD 8670M Dual Graphics 98.04

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GT 740M is Radeon HD 7660G + HD 7670M Dual Graphics, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 1 position in our ranking.