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NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 740 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)
NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1379MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Lower TDP (20W vs 64W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 740
0.763 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 +38%
1.059 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GT 740
516
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 +23%
638
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GT 740 +2%
182
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
177

Graphics Card

May 2014
Release Date
Mar 2018
GeForce 700
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

-
Base Clock
1152 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1379 MHz
1253 MHz
Memory Clock
1050 MHz

Memory

1024MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR4
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
80.19GB/s
Bandwidth
16.80GB/s

Render Config

-
-
-
-
SM Count
3
384
Shading Units
384
32
TMUs
24
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

7.944 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
22.06 GPixel/s
31.78 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.10 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
16.55 GFLOPS
762.6 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1059 GFLOPS
31.78 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
33.10 GFLOPS

Board Design

64W
TDP
20W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None

Graphics Processor

GK107
GPU Name
GP108
GK107-425-A2
GPU Variant
GP108-310-A1
Kepler
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
14 nm
1.27 billion
Transistors
1.8 billion
118 mm²
Die Size
74 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.1
Vulkan
1.3
3.0
CUDA
6.1
5.1
Shader Model
6.4
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