GeForce GT 740 and GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2 - video card comparison
GeForce GT 740
GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name
GK107
GF116
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
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
993 MHz
783 MHz
Floating-point performance
762.6 gflops
601.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,270 million
1,170 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
192
Power consumption (TDP)
64 Watt
106 Watt
Texture fill rate
31.78
25.06
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
5012 MHz
3608 MHz
Memory bandwidth
80.19 GB/s
57.73 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
3.0
2.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
1.1.126
N/A