NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 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 8 GB GA107 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

2176 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 115W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 +1076%

9.098 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740 OEM

0.773 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

VS

GeForce GT 740 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Apr 2015

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1552 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

-

20

SM Count

-

2560

Shading Units

384

80

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

80

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

56.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.048 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.19 GTexel/s

9.098 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.098 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

772.6 GFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

32.19 GFLOPS

Board Design

115W

TDP

65W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GK106

GA107-150-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Kepler

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

2.54 billion

Unknown

Die Size

221 mm²

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

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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