
GeForce GT 740 and Polaris 20 - video card comparison
GeForce GT 740
Polaris 20
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name
GK107
Polaris 20
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2014
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Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
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Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
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Core clock speed
993 MHz
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Floating-point performance
762.6 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
1,270 million
5,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
2304
Power consumption (TDP)
64 Watt
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Texture fill rate
31.78
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Memory type
GDDR5
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Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
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Memory bus width
128 Bit
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Memory clock speed
5012 MHz
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Memory bandwidth
80.19 GB/s
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Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
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HDMI
+
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DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (12_0)
CUDA
3.0
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OpenCL
1.2
2.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.7
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.3