GeForce GT 740
Nvidia graphics card · GeForce 700 series · launched May 2014
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Launch price in today's dollars
The GeForce GT 740 launched at $89 in 2014. Adjusted with the U.S. Consumer Price Index, that is about $124 in 2026 dollars (7-month average), a 39% rise over 12 years. At its launch price that is 45 Blender points per $100.
Method: launch price × (CPI 2026 average ÷ CPI 2014 average), calendar-year averages of BLS series CPIAUCSL. 2026 covers 7 months so far.
Blender rendering score
Median score 40 (middle half of runs 39–41) across 23 community runs on Blender 4.x with the CUDA backend. That is #101 of 103 graphics cards in our dataset with a score, and #6 of 8 in the GeForce 700 series.
This is a rendering benchmark (samples per minute over the monster, junkshop and classroom scenes), not a gaming benchmark. It says how fast the part renders in Blender's Cycles engine and nothing about frame rates. Source: Blender Open Data, CC0, snapshot 2026-09-06.
Specifications
| Vendor | Nvidia |
|---|---|
| Series | GeForce 700 series |
| Launched | May 2014 |
| Launch price | $89 |
| Architecture | Kepler |
| Chip | GK107-425-A2 |
| Memory | 1 GB |
| Memory type | GDDR5 |
| Memory bus | 128-bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 80.2 GB/s |
| Core clock | 993 MHz |
| FP32 compute | 0.76 TFLOPS |
| Rated power | 64 W (TDP) |
| Transistors | 1.3 billion |
| Die size | 118 mm² |
| Process | 28 nm |
| Bus interface | PCIe 3x16 |
| Tier | 40-class |
The Nvidia 40-class over time
Nvidia graphics cards in the same tier around this one, oldest first, re-releases left out. Prices in launch dollars and in 2026 dollars; scores are Blender 4.x medians where they exist.
| Part | Year | Launch price | In 2026 $ | Blender |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GeForce 9400 | 2008 | — | — | — |
| GeForce 9400 GT | 2008 | — | — | — |
| GeForce GT 240 | 2009 | $79 | $122 | — |
| GeForce GT 440 | 2011 | $79 | $116 | — |
| GeForce GT 545 | 2011 | $149 | $219 | — |
| GeForce GT 640 | 2012 | $99 | $143 | — |
| GeForce GT 740 | 2014 | $89 | $124 | 40 |
Compare with
- GeForce GT 730 · 2014 · $69 · 34
- GeForce GT 630 Rev. 2 · 2013 · $79
- GeForce GT 640 Rev. 2 · 2013 · $89
- Radeon R7 250X · 2014 · $99
- Radeon R7 240 · 2013 · $69
- Radeon R7 250 · 2013 · $89
- Radeon R7 250E · 2013 · $109
- Radeon R7 260 · 2013 · $109
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