NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 740A and 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A 's Advantages

Lower TDP (33W vs 45W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1343MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 740A

0.753 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile +539%

4.813 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740A

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile

Graphics Card

Aug 2013

Release Date

Jan 2024

GeForce 700A

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1065 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1343 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

14

384

Shading Units

1792

32

TMUs

56

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

56

-

RT Cores

14

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

7.840 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

42.98 GPixel/s

31.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.21 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.813 TFLOPS

752.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.813 TFLOPS

31.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.21 GFLOPS

Board Design

33W

TDP

45W

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GK208

GPU Name

GA106

GT 740M

GPU Variant

-

Kepler 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.02 billion

Transistors

12 billion

87 mm²

Die Size

276 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

6.7

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