NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4534 points
1854% significantly better overall score
232 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

112 FPS
106 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
6 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

57 FPS
54 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

78 FPS
74 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

44 FPS
41 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
2 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2352.59 points
6829% significantly higher Blender score
33.95 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

98709 points
3446% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
2783 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

92420 points
2474% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
3590 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

71210 points
1898% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
3564 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

84300 points
2088% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
3852 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

82804 points
1993% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
3955 points

Specifications

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit
200% significantly larger memory bus width
64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336 GB/s
2233% significantly higher memory bandwidth
14.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W
33 W
142% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

68.4 Gigapixels/s
772% significantly higher pixel rate
7.84 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

171 Gigatexels/s
445% significantly higher texture rate
31.36 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3840
900% significantly more shading units
384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120
274% significantly more texture mapping units
32

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
499% significantly more render output processors
8

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

111th of 586
407th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January
2013 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop vs GeForce GT 740M specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop beats the GeForce GT 740M in gaming performance.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop is better than the GeForce GT 740M.

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