NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M vs NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M and NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra 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 8 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • Around 80% higher core clock speed: 810 MHz vs 450 MHz
  • 2.2x more boost clock speed: 980 MHz vs 450 MHz
  • 2.9x more texture fill rate: 15.68 GTexel / s vs 5.4 GTexel / s
  • 32x more pipelines: 384 vs 12
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 130 nm
  • Around 98% lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 89 Watt
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 256 MB
  • Around 50% higher memory clock speed: 1802 MHz vs 1200 MHz
  • 5.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 793 vs 138
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 April 2013 vs 24 February 2005
Core clock speed 810 MHz vs 450 MHz
Boost clock speed 980 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate 15.68 GTexel / s vs 5.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines 384 vs 12
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 130 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 45 Watt vs 89 Watt
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed 1802 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 793 vs 138

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra

  • Around 33% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 198 vs 149
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 198 vs 149

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
793
138
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
149
198
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra
PassMark - G3D Mark 793 138
PassMark - G2D Mark 149 198
Geekbench - OpenCL 3866
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 GT 740M NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra

Essentials

Architecture Kepler Curie
Code name GK107 NV41
Launch date 1 April 2013 24 February 2005
Place in performance rating 1301 910
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 980 MHz 450 MHz
Core clock speed 810 MHz 450 MHz
Floating-point performance 752.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 130 nm
Pipelines 384 12
Texture fill rate 15.68 GTexel / s 5.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 45 Watt 89 Watt
Transistor count 1,270 million 222 million

Video outputs and ports

7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
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

Bus support PCI Express 3.0
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size medium sized large
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12 API 9.0c
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 14.4 GB / s 38.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 / 128 Bit 600 Bit
Memory clock speed 1802 MHz 1200 MHz
Memory type DDR3 256
Shared memory 0 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