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.

NVIDIA GeForce 720M

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M

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		793
PassMark - G2D Mark		149
Geekbench - OpenCL		3866
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	1301
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