NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 vs AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 690 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 690 's Advantages

Boost Clock1019MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

Lower TDP (55W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 690 +282%

3.13 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

0.819 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 690

VS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

Graphics Card

May 2012

Release Date

Sep 2013

GeForce 600

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

915 MHz

Base Clock

-

1019 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

8

1536

Shading Units

512

128

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

32.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

130.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.130 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

819.2 GFLOPS

130.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

51.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

Cape Verde

GK104-355-A2

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRO

Kepler

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

55W

700 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

Vulkan

1.2

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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