GeForce GTS 250 and GeForce GT 740 OEM - video card comparison
GeForce GTS 250
GeForce GT 740 OEM
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name
G92B
GK106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2009
April 2015
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
738 MHz
1050 MHz
CUDA cores
128
-
Floating-point performance
387.1 gflops
772.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
754 million
2,540 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
128
384
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
65 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
47.2 billion/sec
33.60
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1100 MHz
5012 MHz
Memory bandwidth
70.4 GB/s
80.19 GB/s
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI
No outputs
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
+
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
3.0
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.1.126