NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 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 RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

3200 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 's Advantages

Lower TDP (64W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +1569%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740

0.763 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

VS

GeForce GT 740

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

May 2014

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

384

112

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

16

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

3 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.944 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

31.78 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

762.6 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

31.78 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

64W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GK107

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

GK107-425-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Kepler

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

1.27 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

118 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

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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