NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 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 1660 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1785MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.1GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1660 +550%

5.027 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740 OEM

0.773 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 1660 +1539%

787

GeForce GT 740 OEM

48

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 1660 +761%

112

GeForce GT 740 OEM

13

GeForce GTX 1660

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GeForce GT 740 OEM

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Apr 2015

GeForce 16

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1530 MHz

Base Clock

-

1785 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2001 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.1GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

22

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1408

Shading Units

384

88

TMUs

32

48

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

85.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.048 GPixel/s

157.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.19 GTexel/s

10.05 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.027 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

772.6 GFLOPS

157.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

32.19 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU116

GPU Name

GK106

TU116-300-A1

GPU Variant

-

Turing

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.6 billion

Transistors

2.54 billion

284 mm²

Die Size

221 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

65W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 8-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

7.5

CUDA

3.0

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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