NVIDIA A2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM A2 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 740 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA A2 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1770MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (200.1GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)
896 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (60W vs 64W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
A2
+493%
4.531 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 740
0.763 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2021
Release Date
May 2014
Quadro
Generation
GeForce 700
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1440 MHz
Base Clock
-
1770 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1563 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
200.1GB/s
Bandwidth
80.19GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
10
SM Count
-
1280
Shading Units
384
40
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
16
40
Tensor Cores
-
10
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
2 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
56.64 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
7.944 GPixel/s
70.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
31.78 GTexel/s
4.531 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
4.531 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
762.6 GFLOPS
70.80 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
31.78 GFLOPS
Board Design
60W
TDP
64W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
No outputs
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GA107
GPU Name
GK107
-
GPU Variant
GK107-425-A2
Ampere
Architecture
Kepler
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
28 nm
Unknown
Transistors
1.27 billion
Unknown
Die Size
118 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.1
8.6
CUDA
3.0
6.6
Shader Model
5.1
