NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 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 480 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (177.4GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

32 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (55W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480 +64%

1.345 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

0.819 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

VS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Sep 2013

GeForce 400

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

924 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

177.4GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

15

SM Count

-

480

Shading Units

512

60

TMUs

32

48

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

42.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.60 GTexel/s

-

1345 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

819.2 GFLOPS

168.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

51.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

55W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

Cape Verde

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRO

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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