GeForce GT 740M: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The GeForce GT 740M sat a half-step above the bottom of NVIDIA's 2013 lineup — enough silicon for multimedia duty, never marketed as gaming hardware. The catalog has benchmarked it in 50 games at 1080p across 4 matched models.

Where the GT 740M sits in 2026

The catalog scores the chip at 2.2 — 307th of 341 scored mobile GPUs, the bottom decile. The neighbors are the period's entry cohort: the NVS 5200M (2.4), Radeon HD 6770M (2.3) and GT 525M (2.3) above; its own sibling the GT 720M (2.2) level, and the Radeon R5 M230 (2.2) and Quadro 2000M (2.1) below. Two of the three chips directly above it launched in 2011 and 2012 — the table's way of saying this die never separated itself from the pack behind it.

What the chip brings

The GK208 die on 28 nm Kepler: 384 shader cores, 2 GB of DDR3 on a 64-bit bus with 14 GB/s of bandwidth, a 1033 MHz clock, a 45 W envelope and roughly 0.75 TFLOPS. The 64-bit DDR3 memory system ties the chip's ceiling to bandwidth that even 2013's mid-range exceeded threefold. CUDA is the one line of the spec sheet with any remaining meaning. Public synthetics: PassMark 774, Fire Strike 1151.

FPS in games at 1080p

The capped quartet stands alone at the top — CS:GO and Overwatch at 240 FPS, GTA V and PUBG at 140 at the high preset. The next real number is F1 2014 at 47, then The Sims 4 at 33, Valorant at 35, GRID Autosport at 31, Dirt Rally and Wolfenstein: The New Order at 22 and Dota 2 at 21. Everything past that era is single digits: Fortnite at 8, The Witcher 3 at 7, Cyberpunk 2077 at 4, Forza Horizon 4 at 10, Resident Evil 4 Remake at 1, Metro Exodus at 3.

Laptops that carry it

The 4 matched models are 2013–2014 mainstream machines: Dell's Latitude 3440 at $174, HP's Envy 15-j154eo at $221, Lenovo's IdeaPad Z710 at $207 and the ThinkPad E540 at $132. Roster medians: overall score 28.5, gaming index 11.5 — office-and-media hardware through and through.

Bottom line

The GT 740M is the catalog's baseline definition of "dedicated graphics, minimal sense": 384 cores on a 64-bit DDR3 leash, bottom-decile ranking, and a benchmark table that goes dark one generation past its own. The $132–$221 machines carrying it are keyboard-and-screen purchases for tight budgets — the ThinkPad E540 at $132 being the classic example — and the chip's role in them is spec-sheet decoration. The catalog's compare pages give it the honest epilogue: set against any modern part, the bars tell a story of thirteen years of silicon progress in a single glance.