NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 740 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (5GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.2GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +465%

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740 OEM

0.773 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

VS

GeForce GT 740 OEM

Graphics Card

Dec 2017

Release Date

Apr 2015

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

5GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

160bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.2GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

384

80

TMUs

32

40

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

1280 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

68.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.048 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.19 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

772.6 GFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

32.19 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

GK106

GP106-350-K3-A1

GPU Variant

-

Pascal

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

2.54 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

221 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

65W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

6.1

CUDA

3.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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