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 | 797 | |
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 |