NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 vs NVIDIA A40 PCIe
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 740 and 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 's Advantages
Lower TDP (64W vs 300W)
NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock1740MHz
More VRAM (48GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)
10368 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 740
0.763 TFLOPS
A40 PCIe
+4804%
37.42 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2014
Release Date
Oct 2020
GeForce 700
Generation
Tesla
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1305 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1740 MHz
1253 MHz
Memory Clock
1812 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
48GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
384bit
80.19GB/s
Bandwidth
695.8GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
84
384
Shading Units
10752
32
TMUs
336
16
ROPs
112
-
Tensor Cores
336
-
RT Cores
84
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
6 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
7.944 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
194.9 GPixel/s
31.78 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
584.6 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
37.42 TFLOPS
762.6 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
37.42 TFLOPS
31.78 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
584.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
64W
TDP
300W
250 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.4a
Outputs
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
Graphics Processor
GK107
GPU Name
GA102
GK107-425-A2
GPU Variant
-
Kepler
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
1.27 billion
Transistors
28.3 billion
118 mm²
Die Size
628 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
3.0
CUDA
8.6
5.1
Shader Model
6.6
