
GeForce GT 740 and GeForce 6800 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 740 vs GeForce 6800
GeForce GT 740
1534
GeForce 6800
115
GeForce GT 740
GeForce 6800
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
GK107
NV41
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2014
November 2004
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Core clock speed
993 MHz
325 MHz
Floating-point performance
762.6 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
1,270 million
190 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
-
Power consumption (TDP)
64 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
31.78
3.900
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
256 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
5012 MHz
600 MBps
Memory bandwidth
80.19 GB/s
19.2 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
2.0 (full)
Shader Model5.13.0
Vulkan
1.1.126
N/A