NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 740 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 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 225W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock1665MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)
4480 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 740
0.763 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+2023%
16.2 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GT 740
516
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+2268%
12223
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GT 740
182
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+3164%
5941
Graphics Card
May 2014
Release Date
Oct 2022
GeForce 700
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1410 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1665 MHz
1253 MHz
Memory Clock
1188 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6X
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
80.19GB/s
Bandwidth
608.3GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
38
384
Shading Units
4864
32
TMUs
152
16
ROPs
80
-
Tensor Cores
152
-
RT Cores
38
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
7.944 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
133.2 GPixel/s
31.78 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
253.1 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
16.20 TFLOPS
762.6 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
16.20 TFLOPS
31.78 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
253.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
64W
TDP
225W
250 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
Graphics Processor
GK107
GPU Name
GA104
GK107-425-A2
GPU Variant
GA104-202-A1
Kepler
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
1.27 billion
Transistors
17.4 billion
118 mm²
Die Size
392 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
6.7
