GeForce GT 740A vs GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 740A and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GT 740A 's Advantages
Lower TDP (33W vs 80W)
GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock1290MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
4736 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 740A
753
GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q
+1654%
13210
Graphics Card
Aug 2013
Release Date
Jan 2021
GeForce 700A
Generation
GeForce 30 Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
780 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1290 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
8GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
14.40GB/s
Bandwidth
384.0GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
40
384
Shading Units
5120
32
TMUs
160
8
ROPs
80
-
Tensor Cores
160
-
RT Cores
40
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
Theoretical Performance
7.840 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
103.2 GPixel/s
31.36 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
206.4 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
13.21 TFLOPS
752.6 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
13.21 TFLOPS
31.36 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
206.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
33W
TDP
80W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GK208
GPU Name
GA104
GT 740M
GPU Variant
GA104-770-A1
Kepler 2.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
1.02 billion
Transistors
17.4 billion
87 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
3.5
CUDA
8.6
5.1
Shader Model
6.6
