NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

232 points

5980 points

2477% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

6 FPS

151 FPS

145 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS

75 FPS

72 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

4 FPS

104 FPS

100 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

2 FPS

57 FPS

55 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

33.95 points

3004.43 points

8749% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

2783 points

122041 points

4285% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3590 points

111833 points

3015% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3564 points

84673 points

2275% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3852 points

102733 points

2567% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3955 points

96388 points

2337% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit

256 Bit

300% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

14.4 GB/s

448 GB/s

3011% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

33 W

248% significantly lower TDP

115 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

7.84 Gigapixels/s

124.8 Gigapixels/s

1491% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

31.36 Gigatexels/s

249.6 Gigatexels/s

695% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

5120

1233% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

400% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

900% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

416th of 597

82nd of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 April

2021 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce GT 740M vs GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop graphics card is better than the GeForce GT 740M in our tests.

In addition, the GeForce GT 740M has a significantly lower TDP at 33 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop at 115 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop is faster than the GeForce GT 740M.