NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 740 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 's Advantages

Lower TDP (64W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB +473%

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740

0.763 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

VS

GeForce GT 740

Graphics Card

Jul 2016

Release Date

May 2014

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

6GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

384

80

TMUs

32

48

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.944 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

31.78 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

762.6 GFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

31.78 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

64W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

GK107

GP106-400-A1

GPU Variant

GK107-425-A2

Pascal

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

1.27 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

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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