NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 vs Intel GMA 3000

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 and Intel GMA 3000 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. 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 GT 740

Intel GMA 3000

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 740

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 10 month(s) later
2.5x more core clock speed: 993 MHz vs 400 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm

Launch date	29 May 2014 vs 1 July 2006
Core clock speed	993 MHz vs 400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm

Reasons to consider the Intel GMA 3000

4.9x lower typical power consumption: 13 Watt vs 64 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	13 Watt vs 64 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 740
GPU 2: Intel GMA 3000

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 740	Intel GMA 3000
PassMark - G3D Mark	1469
PassMark - G2D Mark	349
Geekbench - OpenCL	4271
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	11.994
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	291.627
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.023
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	15.139
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	23.651
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1790
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1427
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2153
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1790
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1427
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2153
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	513

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 740	Intel GMA 3000
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	Generation 3.5
Code name	GK107	Lakeport
Launch date	29 May 2014	1 July 2006
Launch price (MSRP)	$89
Place in performance rating	1270	not rated
Price now	$94.99
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	18.87
Technical info
Core clock speed	993 MHz	400 MHz
Floating-point performance	762.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	384
Texture fill rate	31.78 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	64 Watt	13 Watt
Transistor count	1,270 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	145 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.6	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	80.19 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	5012 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5