AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8740 OEM and 128MB VRAM GeForce 8300 GS 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 6 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

504 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (40W vs 55W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8740 OEM +5360%

0.819 TFLOPS

GeForce 8300 GS

0.015 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

VS

GeForce 8300 GS

Graphics Card

Sep 2013

Release Date

Apr 2007

Sea Islands

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

1

512

Shading Units

8

32

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

16 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

25.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

-

819.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.69 GFLOPS

51.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

55W

TDP

40W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

G86

Cape Verde PRO

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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