AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 315 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce 315 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8740 OEM and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 315 OEM 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 2 years and 7 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)

496 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 315 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (33W vs 55W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8740 OEM +1720%

0.819 TFLOPS

GeForce 315 OEM

0.045 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

VS

GeForce 315 OEM

Graphics Card

Sep 2013

Release Date

Feb 2011

Sea Islands

Generation

GeForce 300

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

9.600GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

512

Shading Units

16

32

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.356 GPixel/s

25.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.712 GTexel/s

-

819.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

44.86 GFLOPS

51.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

55W

TDP

33W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

GT218

Cape Verde PRO

GPU Variant

GT218-300-B1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

0.26 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

57 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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