NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 740 OEM and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

3200 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 740 OEM

0.773 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +1548%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740 OEM

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GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Apr 2015

Release Date

Sep 2021

GeForce 700

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1320 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

28

384

Shading Units

3584

32

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.048 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

32.19 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

772.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

32.19 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

65W

TDP

170W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

GK106

GPU Name

GA104

-

GPU Variant

GA104-150-KC-A1

Kepler

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.54 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

221 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

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