GeForce GT 740 and Switch GPU - video card comparison

GeForce GT 740

Switch GPU

Architecture

Kepler (2012−2018)

Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)

GPU code name

GK107

GM20B

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

May 2014

March 2017

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

IGP

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

None

Boost clock speed

-

768 MHz

Core clock speed

993 MHz

-

Floating-point performance

762.6 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

20 nm

Number of transistors

1,270 million

2,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

384

256

Power consumption (TDP)

64 Watt

15 Watt

Texture fill rate

31.78

12.29

Memory type

GDDR5

DDR4

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

5012 MHz

3200 MHz

Memory bandwidth

80.19 GB/s

25.6 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI

No outputs

HDMI

+

-

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

3.0

5.3

OpenCL

1.2

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.4

Vulkan

1.1.126

1.1.126