GeForce 8300 GS and GeForce GT 740 OEM - video card comparison
GeForce 8300 GS
GeForce GT 740 OEM
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name
G86
GK106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
April 2015
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
459 MHz
1050 MHz
Floating-point performance
14.688 gflops
772.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
210 million
2,540 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
8
384
Power consumption (TDP)
40 Watt
65 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.672
33.60
Memory type
DDR2
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
128 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
5012 MHz
Memory bandwidth
6.4 GB/s
80.19 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
No outputs
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
1.1
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
3.3
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.1.126