NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10 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

$ 749.99
$ 349.95
$ 400.04 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

11608 points
5349% significantly better overall score
213 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

281 FPS
275 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

141 FPS
138 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

200 FPS
196 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

111 FPS
109 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
2 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

4821.52 points
8115% significantly higher Blender score
58.69 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

206390 points
6150% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
3302 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

181771 points
4184% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
4243 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

126138 points
2902% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
4201 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

173309 points
4005% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
4221 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

158661 points
3601% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
4286 points

Specifications

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

320 Bit
150% significantly larger memory bus width
128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

760.3 GB/s
848% significantly higher memory bandwidth
80.19 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

320 W
64 W
400% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

164.2 Gigapixels/s
1966% significantly higher pixel rate
7.94 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

465.1 Gigatexels/s
1363% significantly higher texture rate
31.78 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

8704
2166% significantly more shading units
384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

272
749% significantly more texture mapping units
32

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

96
499% significantly more render output processors
16

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

32nd of 586
418th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September
2015 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce RTX 3080 vs GeForce GT 740 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3080 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 RTX 3080 at 320 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3080 is better than the GeForce GT 740.

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