1GB Nvidia GT740M vs 2GB GT635M

[Hodor]

Hi guys, I've been looking through some laptops for mid range gaming and came across 2 lenovos that had decent specs for their prices. I was wondering, does the extra 1GB on the slightly worse GT635M makes it any better performance wise in comparison to the 740M? Thanks

 

[gamer2321]

I WOULD RECOMEND THE GT635M as MORE GB MEANS U CAN INCREASE INGAME DETAIL HIGHER AND THOSE MEDIA CHIPSETS ARE AVERAGELY GOOD

 

[Hodor]

I WOULD RECOMEND THE GT635M as MORE GB MEANS U CAN INCREASE INGAME DETAIL HIGHER AND THOSE MEDIA CHIPSETS ARE AVERAGELY GOOD

Are you sure because I've been reading around and the general consensus seems to be that the difference between 1GB and 2GB of VRAM isn't that noticeable as I'm only using a laptop screen and not intending to use multiple monitors.

 

[gamer2321]

OH IM SO SORRY I ACCIDENTLY WROTE GT710m when doing my research. SO ACTUALLY 740M IS BETTER,
+Higher clock speed 810 MHz vs 675 MHz
+Better 3DMark 11 graphics score 1,878 vs 1,110
+Better floating-point performance 622.1 GFLOPS vs 388.8
+Slightly better 3DMark06 score 10,161 vs 8,517.5 +Around 20% better 3DMark06 score
+Higher texture rate 25.9 GTexel/s vs 16.2 GTexel/s
+Higher pixel rate 6.48 GPixel/s vs 4.05 GPixel/s
+More shading units 384 vs 144
+Slightly more texture mapping units 32 vs 24
+Better CLBenchmark raytrace score 37,545 vs 19,280

 

[shamsmu]

2gb vram is pointless for a notebook and particularly any mobile graphics adapter that's not powerful enough to utilise those vrams. Also your resolution is a key factor here. Neither of those cards aren't powerful enough to run most modern games at high settings at 1080p

gt740m is quite a bit more powerful than a gt635m(scores around 80% more in 3dmark11) performs better at games like battlefield 3 etc

Check out the comparison here-

http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GT-740M.89900.0.html

http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GT-635M.66964.0.html