NVIDIA GeForce 720M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 720M and NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 720M

  • Around 36% lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 45 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 33 Watt vs 45 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M

  • Around 30% higher core clock speed: 810 MHz vs 625 MHz
  • Around 57% higher texture fill rate: 15.68 GTexel / s vs 10 GTexel / s
  • 4x more pipelines: 384 vs 96
  • 3.1x better floating-point performance: 752.6 gflops vs 240.0 gflops
  • Around 13% higher memory clock speed: 1802 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Core clock speed 810 MHz vs 625 MHz
Texture fill rate 15.68 GTexel / s vs 10 GTexel / s
Pipelines 384 vs 96
Floating-point performance 752.6 gflops vs 240.0 gflops
Memory clock speed 1802 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 720M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M

Name NVIDIA GeForce 720M NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M
PassMark - G3D Mark 796
PassMark - G2D Mark 148
Geekbench - OpenCL 3882
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 9.392
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 157.479
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.864
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 16.101
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 44.77
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1589
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3235
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3339
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1589
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3235
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3339
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 345

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce 720M NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M

Essentials

Architecture Fermi 2.0 Kepler
Code name GF117 GK107
Launch date 1 April 2013 1 April 2013
Place in performance rating not rated 1312
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 625 MHz 810 MHz
Floating-point performance 240.0 gflops 752.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 96 384
Texture fill rate 10 GTexel / s 15.68 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 33 Watt 45 Watt
Transistor count 585 million 1,270 million
Boost clock speed 980 MHz

Video outputs and ports

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

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus support PCI Express 3.0
Laptop size medium sized

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 12 API
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
OpenCL 1.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 12.8 GB / s 14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 64 / 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz 1802 MHz
Memory type DDR3 DDR3
Shared memory 0
Standard memory configuration DDR3 / GDDR5

Technologies

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

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