NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M

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Graphics Processor

GPU model G92 GK107
GPU variant G92-420-A2 GT 740M
Architecture Tesla Kepler
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 65 nm 28 nm
Number of transistors 754 million 1,270 million
Die size 324 mm² 118 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Mar 28th, 2008 —
Generation GeForce 9 —
Production End-of-life —
Launch price 299 USD —
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 —
Reviews 84 in our database —
Predecessor GeForce 8 —
Successor GeForce 200 —

Clocks

GPU clock 675 MHz 810 MHz
Shader clock 1688 MHz —
Memory clock 1100 MHz 2.2 Gbps effective 901 MHz 1802 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 512 MB 2 GB
Memory type GDDR3 DDR3
Memory bus width 256 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 70.40 GB/s 28.83 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 128 384
TMUs 64 32
ROPs 16 16
SM count 16 —
Cache L2 64 KB 256 KB
SMX count — 2
Cache L1 — 16 KB (per SMX)

Performance

Pixel rate 10.80 GPixel/s 6.480 GPixel/s
Texture rate 43.20 GTexel/s 25.92 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 432.1 GFLOPS 622.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance — 25.92 GFLOPS (1:24)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot MXM Module
Length 267 mm 10.5 inches —
Width 111 mm 4.4 inches —
Height 38 mm 1.5 inches —
TDP 140 W 45 W
Suggested PSU 300 W —
Outputs 2x DVI1x S-Video No outputs
Power connectors 2x 6-pin —
Board number P392 —

API Support & Features

DirectX 11.1 (10_0) 12 (11_0)
OpenGL 3.3 4.6
OpenCL 1.1 3.0
Vulkan — 1.1
CUDA 1.1 3.0
Shader model 4.0 5.1

Other Features

Mobile graphics

Release date — Apr 1st, 2013
Generation — GeForce 700M
Production — End-of-life
Interface — PCIe 3.0 x16
Predecessor — GeForce 600M
Successor — GeForce 800M

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