
GeForce GT 740 and GeForce 9300 GS Rev. 2 - video card comparison
GeForce GT 740
GeForce 9300 GS Rev. 2
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code name
GK107
GT218
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2014
March 2011
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Core clock speed
993 MHz
589 MHz
Floating-point performance
762.6 gflops
44.86 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,270 million
260 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
16
Power consumption (TDP)
64 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
31.78
4.712
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
256 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
5012 MHz
666 MHz
Memory bandwidth
80.19 GB/s
5.328 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (11_0)
11.1 (10_1)
CUDA
3.0
1.2
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
3.3
Shader Model
5.1
4.1
Vulkan
1.1.126
N/A