NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M and NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS 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 GT 740M

• Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 4 month(s) later
• Around 53% higher core clock speed: 810 MHz vs 530 MHz
• 6x more pipelines: 384 vs 64
• 4.4x better floating-point performance: 752.6 gflops vs 169.6 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
• Around 33% lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 60 Watt
• 4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
• Around 13% higher memory clock speed: 1802 MHz vs 1600 MHz
• Around 49% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 793 vs 534
• 3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 149 vs 50
• Around 38% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3339 vs 2414
• Around 38% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3339 vs 2414

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS

• Around 2% higher texture fill rate: 16 billion / sec vs 15.68 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	793 534
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	149 50
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3339 2414
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3339 2414

Compare specifications (specs)