NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 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 3060 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

3200 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +1548%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740 OEM

0.773 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +5106%

2499

GeForce GT 740 OEM

48

OctaneBench

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +2069%

282

GeForce GT 740 OEM

13

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

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GeForce GT 740 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Apr 2015

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

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

384

112

TMUs

32

48

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

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.048 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.19 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

772.6 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

32.19 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

65W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GK106

GA106-302-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Kepler

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12 billion

Transistors

2.54 billion

276 mm²

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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