GeForce GTX 960 and i740 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 960

i740

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

i740 (1998)

GPU code name

GM206

Auburn

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

January 2015

February 1998

Bus support

PCI Express 3.0

-

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

AGP 2x

Recommended system power (PSU)

400 Watt

-

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pins

-

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

1178 MHz

-

Core clock speed

1127 MHz

66 MHz

CUDA cores

1024

-

Floating-point performance

2,413 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

150 nm

Number of transistors

2,940 million

-

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1024

-

Power consumption (TDP)

120 Watt

-

Texture fill rate

72 billion/sec

0.07

Memory type

GDDR5

SDR

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

4 MB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

7.0 GB/s

100 MHz

Memory bandwidth

112 GB/s

800.0 MB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2

1x VGA

Multi monitor support

4 displays

-

HDMI

+

-

HDCP

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

G-SYNC support

+

-

Audio input for HDMI

Internal

-

DirectX

12 (12_1)

5.0

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

Shader Model

6.4

-

Vulkan

+

N/A

GameStream

+

-

GameWorks

+

-

GeForce ShadowPlay

+

-

GPU Boost

2.0

-