NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8740 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (141.7GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 3 months late

272 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (55W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM +31%

0.819 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

VS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Sep 2013

GeForce 200

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

-

Compute Units

8

240

Shading Units

512

80

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

819.2 GFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

51.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Cape Verde

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRO

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

236W

TDP

55W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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