GeForce GT 740A vs RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 740A and 12GB VRAM RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GT 740A 's Advantages
Lower TDP (33W vs 100W)
RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock1545MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
4736 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 740A
753
RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation
+2000%
15820
Graphics Card
Aug 2013
Release Date
Mar 2023
GeForce 700A
Generation
Quadro Ada-M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1110 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1545 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
12GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
64bit
Memory Bus
192bit
14.40GB/s
Bandwidth
432.0GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
40
384
Shading Units
5120
32
TMUs
160
8
ROPs
64
-
Tensor Cores
160
-
RT Cores
40
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
48 MB
Theoretical Performance
7.840 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
98.88 GPixel/s
31.36 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
247.2 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
15.82 TFLOPS
752.6 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
15.82 TFLOPS
31.36 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
247.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
33W
TDP
100W
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GK208
GPU Name
AD104
GT 740M
GPU Variant
-
Kepler 2.0
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
5 nm
1.02 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
87 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.1
Vulkan
1.3
3.5
CUDA
8.9
5.1
Shader Model
6.7
