GeForce GT 740 and GeForce 8500 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 740 vs GeForce 8500 GT
GeForce GT 740
1534
GeForce 8500 GT
140
GeForce GT 740
GeForce 8500 GT
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
GK107
G86
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2014
April 2007
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
SLI options
-
+
Core clock speed
993 MHz
459 MHz
Floating-point performance
762.6 gflops
29.376 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
1,270 million
210 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
16
Power consumption (TDP)
64 Watt
30 Watt
Texture fill rate
31.78
3.6 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
256 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
5012 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
80.19 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
-
256 MB
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
3.0
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
Shader Model
5.1
4.0
Vulkan
1.1.126
N/A