NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

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Graphics Processor

GPU model GK107 GK106
GPU variant GK107-425-A2 GK106-400-A1
Architecture Kepler Kepler
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 28 nm 28 nm
Number of transistors 1,270 million 2,540 million
Die size 118 mm² 221 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date May 29th, 2014 Sep 6th, 2012
Generation GeForce 700 GeForce 600
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Launch price 89 USD 229 USD
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Predecessor GeForce 600 GeForce 500
Successor GeForce 900 GeForce 700
Reviews 77 in our database

Clocks

GPU clock 993 MHz
Memory clock 1253 MHz 5 Gbps effective 1502 MHz 6 Gbps effective
Base clock 980 MHz
Boost clock 1032 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 1024 MB 2 GB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory bus width 128 bit 192 bit
Bandwidth 80.19 GB/s 144.2 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 384 960
TMUs 32 80
ROPs 16 24
SMX count 2 5
Cache L1 16 KB (per SMX) 16 KB (per SMX)
Cache L2 256 KB 384 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 7.944 GPixel/s 20.64 GPixel/s
Texture rate 31.78 GTexel/s 82.56 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 762.6 GFLOPS 1.981 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 31.78 GFLOPS (1:24) 82.56 GFLOPS (1:24)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Dual-slot
Length 145 mm 5.7 inches 241 mm 9.5 inches
TDP 64 W 140 W
Suggested PSU 250 W 300 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x mini-HDMI 2x DVI1x HDMI1x DisplayPort
Power connectors 1x 6-pin 1x 6-pin
Board number P2010 SKU 8 P2011 SKU 6 P2030

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (11_0) 12 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
Vulkan 1.1 1.1
CUDA 3.0 3.0
Shader model 5.1 5.1

Other Features

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