NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A and NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A

NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 7 month(s) later
16x more pipelines: 384 vs 24
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 256 MB
6.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 668 vs 104

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	26 August 2013 vs 9 January 2008
Pipelines	384 vs 24
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 256 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	668 vs 104

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE

Around 32% lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 33 Watt
Around 7% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 320 vs 300

Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 33 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	320 vs 300

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

300

320

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

668

104

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A	NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE
PassMark - G2D Mark	300	320
PassMark - G3D Mark	668	104

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A	NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler 2.0
Code name	GK208	MCP79Mx + NB9M
Launch date	26 August 2013	9 January 2008
Place in performance rating	507	508
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	980 MHz
Floating-point performance	752.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	384	24
Texture fill rate	15.68 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt	25 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory		1