GeForce GT 740M vs GeForce GTX 1060
Summary
GeForce GT 740M
100%
GeForce GTX 1060
934%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider GeForce GT 740M |
| 87 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 1060 . |
| Supports PhysX |
| Supports G-Sync |
| Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060 |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Around 834% higher average synthetic performance. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Supports G-Sync |
| Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1060
The GeForce GTX 1060 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GT 740M | | GeForce GTX 1060 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GK208 (GT 740M) | vs | GP106 (GP106-400-A1) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 16 nm |
| Die Size | 87 mm² | vs | 200 mm² |
| Transistors | unknown | vs | 4,400 million |
| Shaders | 384 | vs | 1280 |
| Compute Units | 2 | vs | 10 |
| Core clock | 980 MHz | vs | 1506 MHz |
| ROPs | 8 | vs | 48 |
| TMUs | 16 | vs | 80 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GT 740M | | GeForce GTX 1060 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | DDR3 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 64 bit | vs | 192 bit |
| Memory Speed | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective | vs | 2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 6144 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GT 740M | | GeForce GTX 1060 | |
|---|
| TDP | 33 watts | vs | 120 watts |
| Release Date | 20 Jun 2013 | vs | 10 Jul 2016 |
GeForce GT 740M
7.84 GP/s
GeForce GTX 1060
72.30 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GT 740M
15.68 GT/s
GeForce GTX 1060
120.50 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GT 740M
14.40 GB/s
GeForce GTX 1060
192.20 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GT 740M
752.60 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 1060
3855.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
GeForce GT 740M
1860
GeForce GTX 1060
17380
Points (higher is better)