NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

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Graphics Processor

GPU model GK107 GP104
GPU variant GK107-425-A2 GP104-140-KA-A1
Architecture Kepler Pascal
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 28 nm 16 nm
Number of transistors 1,270 million 7,200 million
Die size 118 mm² 314 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date May 29th, 2014 Dec 25th, 2016
Generation GeForce 700 GeForce 10
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Launch price 89 USD 199 USD
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Predecessor GeForce 600 GeForce 900
Successor GeForce 900 GeForce 20
Reviews 117 in our database

Clocks

GPU clock 993 MHz
Memory clock 1253 MHz 5 Gbps effective 2002 MHz 8 Gbps effective
Base clock 1506 MHz
Boost clock 1708 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 1024 MB 3 GB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory bus width 128 bit 192 bit
Bandwidth 80.19 GB/s 192.2 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 384 1152
TMUs 32 72
ROPs 16 48
SMX count 2
Cache L1 16 KB (per SMX) 48 KB (per SM)
Cache L2 256 KB 1536 KB
SM count 9

Performance

Pixel rate 7.944 GPixel/s 81.98 GPixel/s
Texture rate 31.78 GTexel/s 123.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 762.6 GFLOPS 3.935 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 31.78 GFLOPS (1:24) 123.0 GFLOPS (1:32)
FP16 (half) performance 61.49 GFLOPS (1:64)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Dual-slot
Length 145 mm 5.7 inches 250 mm 9.8 inches
TDP 64 W 120 W
Suggested PSU 250 W 300 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x mini-HDMI 1x DVI1x HDMI3x DisplayPort
Power connectors 1x 6-pin 1x 6-pin
Board number P2010 SKU 8 P2011 SKU 6

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (11_0) 12 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
Vulkan 1.1 1.2
CUDA 3.0 6.1
Shader model 5.1 6.4

Other Features

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