NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 740M and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (33W vs 60W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1425MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

3456 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 740M

0.753 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile +1352%

10.94 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GT 740M

41

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile +6397%

2664

GeForce GT 740M

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

Graphics Card

Jun 2013

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce 700M

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1425 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

64bit

Memory Bus

192bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

-

Compute Units

-

384

Shading Units

3840

32

TMUs

120

8

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

120

-

RT Cores

30

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

7.840 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

68.40 GPixel/s

31.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

171.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.94 TFLOPS

752.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.94 TFLOPS

31.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

171.0 GFLOPS

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

Board Design

33W

TDP

60-115W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

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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