i740 and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison

i740

GeForce RTX 3060

Architecture

i740 (1998)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Auburn

Ampere GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

February 1998

January 2021

Interface

AGP 2x

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

-

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

-

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

66 MHz

1320 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

150 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

-

13,250 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

-

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

-

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

0.07

199.0

Memory type

SDR

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

4 MB

12 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

100 MHz

15000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

800.0 MB/s

360.0 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

1x VGA

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

-

+

DirectX

5.0

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

-

8.6

OpenCL

N/A

2.0

OpenGL

1.1

4.6

Shader Model

-

6.5

Vulkan

N/A

1.2