AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM vs AMD FireStream 9170

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

AMD FireStream 9170

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8740 OEM and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 10 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (55W vs 105W)

AMD FireStream 9170 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8740 OEM +64%

0.819 TFLOPS

FireStream 9170

0.497 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

VS

FireStream 9170

Graphics Card

Sep 2013

Release Date

Nov 2007

Sea Islands

Generation

FireStream

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

802 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

51.33GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

4

-

512

Shading Units

320

32

TMUs

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.43 GPixel/s

25.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.43 GTexel/s

-

819.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

497.3 GFLOPS

51.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

99.46 GFLOPS

Board Design

55W

TDP

105W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

RV670

Cape Verde PRO

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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