GeForce GT 740 and HD Graphics 2500 - video card comparison

GeForce GT 740

HD Graphics 2500

Architecture

Kepler (2012−2018)

Gen. 7 Ivy Bridge (2011−2012)

GPU code name

GK107

Ivy Bridge GT1

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

May 2014

April 2012

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 1.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

-

Boost clock speed

-

1150 MHz

Core clock speed

993 MHz

650 MHz

Floating-point performance

762.6 gflops

13.8 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

22 nm

Number of transistors

1,270 million

392 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

384

6

Power consumption (TDP)

64 Watt

unknown

Texture fill rate

31.78

6.900

Memory type

GDDR5

System Shared

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

System Shared

Memory bus width

128 Bit

64/128 Bit

Memory clock speed

5012 MHz

System Shared

Memory bandwidth

80.19 GB/s

-

Shared memory

-

+

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI

No outputs

HDMI

+

-

DirectX

12 (11_0)

11.1 (11_0)

CUDA

3.0

-

OpenCL

1.2

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

5.0

Vulkan

1.1.126

1.1.80