NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 740 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1785MHz
More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.1GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)
1024 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 's Advantages
Lower TDP (64W vs 120W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1660
+558%
5.027 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 740
0.763 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 1660
+955%
5444
GeForce GT 740
516
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 1660
+1254%
2465
GeForce GT 740
182
Graphics Card
Mar 2019
Release Date
May 2014
GeForce 16
Generation
GeForce 700
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1530 MHz
Base Clock
-
1785 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2001 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
128bit
192.1GB/s
Bandwidth
80.19GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
22
SM Count
-
1408
Shading Units
384
88
TMUs
32
48
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
1536 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
85.68 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
7.944 GPixel/s
157.1 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
31.78 GTexel/s
10.05 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
5.027 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
762.6 GFLOPS
157.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
31.78 GFLOPS
Board Design
120W
TDP
64W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.4a
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
TU116
GPU Name
GK107
TU116-300-A1
GPU Variant
GK107-425-A2
Turing
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
12 nm
Process Size
28 nm
6.6 billion
Transistors
1.27 billion
284 mm²
Die Size
118 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.1
7.5
CUDA
3.0
6.6
Shader Model
5.1
