GeForce GT 740 and GeForce 6600 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 740 vs GeForce 6600 GT
GeForce GT 740
1534
GeForce 6600 GT
147
GeForce GT 740
GeForce 6600 GT
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
GK107
NV43 A2
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2014
August 2004
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Core clock speed
993 MHz
500 MHz
Floating-point performance
762.6 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
110 nm
Number of transistors
1,270 million
146 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
-
Power consumption (TDP)
64 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
31.78
4.000
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
128 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
5012 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
80.19 GB/s
16 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
9.0c (9_3)
CUDA
3.0
-
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
Shader Model
5.1
3.0
Vulkan
1.1.126
N/A