NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 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 RTX 3050 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1470MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (168.0GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 70W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +776%

6.774 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740 OEM

0.773 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

VS

GeForce GT 740 OEM

Graphics Card

Feb 2024

Release Date

Apr 2015

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1042 MHz

Base Clock

-

1470 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

128bit

168.0GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

18

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

384

72

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

72

Tensor Cores

-

18

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

47.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.048 GPixel/s

105.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.19 GTexel/s

6.774 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.774 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

772.6 GFLOPS

105.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

32.19 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GK106

GA107-325-K2-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Kepler

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

2.54 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

221 mm²

Board Design

70W

TDP

65W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

8.6

CUDA

3.0

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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