NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 vs NVIDIA A2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 740 and 16GB VRAM A2 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)
GeForce GT 740
0.763 TFLOPS
A2
+493%
4.531 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2014
Release Date
Nov 2021
GeForce 700
Generation
Quadro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1440 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1770 MHz
1253 MHz
Memory Clock
1563 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
80.19GB/s
Bandwidth
200.1GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
10
384
Shading Units
1280
32
TMUs
40
16
ROPs
32
-
Tensor Cores
40
-
RT Cores
10
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
7.944 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
56.64 GPixel/s
31.78 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
70.80 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
4.531 TFLOPS
762.6 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.531 TFLOPS
31.78 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
70.80 GFLOPS
Board Design
64W
TDP
60W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GK107
GPU Name
GA107
GK107-425-A2
GPU Variant
-
Kepler
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
1.27 billion
Transistors
Unknown
118 mm²
Die Size
Unknown
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
3.0
CUDA
8.6
5.1
Shader Model
6.6
