GeForce GT 740 and GeForce GTX 470 X2 - video card comparison

GeForce GT 740

GeForce GTX 470 X2

Architecture

Kepler (2012−2018)

Fermi (2010−2014)

GPU code name

GK107

GF100

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

May 2014

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

2x 8-pin

Core clock speed

993 MHz

608 MHz

Floating-point performance

762.6 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

1,270 million

3,100 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

384

352

Power consumption (TDP)

64 Watt

215 Watt

Texture fill rate

31.78

26.75

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

1 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

5012 MHz

3.3 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

80.19 GB/s

107.1 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI

3x DVI

HDMI

DirectX

12 (11_0)

CUDA

3.0

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

Vulkan

1.1.126

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