NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 510M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A and NVIDIA Quadro NVS 510M 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • 2.2x more core clock speed: 980 MHz vs 450 MHz
  • Around 45% higher texture fill rate: 15.68 GTexel / s vs 10.8 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
  • Around 6% lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 35 Watt
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 256 MB
  • Around 50% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1200 MHz
  • 2.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 668 vs 254
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 26 August 2013 vs 21 August 2006
Core clock speed 980 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate 15.68 GTexel / s vs 10.8 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 33 Watt vs 35 Watt
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 668 vs 254

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 510M

  • Around 6% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 317 vs 300
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 317 vs 300

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 510M

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
300
317
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
668
254
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A NVIDIA Quadro NVS 510M
PassMark - G2D Mark 300 317
PassMark - G3D Mark 668 254

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A NVIDIA Quadro NVS 510M

Essentials

Architecture Kepler 2.0 Curie
Code name GK208 G71
Launch date 26 August 2013 21 August 2006
Place in performance rating 507 498
Type Desktop Workstation

Technical info

Core clock speed 980 MHz 450 MHz
Floating-point performance 752.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 384
Texture fill rate 15.68 GTexel / s 10.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 33 Watt 35 Watt
Transistor count 278 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 PCIe 1.0 x16

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 9.0c
OpenGL 4.6 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 14.4 GB / s 19.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz 1200 MHz
Memory type DDR3 GDDR3