NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 335.00
$ 14.95 slightly less expensive
$ 349.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2077 points
875% significantly better overall score
213 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS
38 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS
31 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS
24 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS
24 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
2 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

370.89 points
532% significantly higher Blender score
58.69 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

31129 points
842% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
3302 points
Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13531 points
483% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score
2320 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32388 points
663% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
4243 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

31476 points
649% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
4201 points
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13531 points
486% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
2307 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points
666% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
4221 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points
621% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
4286 points

Specifications

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W
64 W
87% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

205th of 586
416th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2015 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce GT 740 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1060 graphics card is better than the GeForce GT 740 in our tests.

In addition, the GeForce GT 740 has a significantly lower TDP at 64 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 at 120 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1060 is faster than the GeForce GT 740.

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