AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8740 OEM and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 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 late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)

480 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (55W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8740 OEM +780%

0.819 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Sep 2013

Release Date

Sep 2007

Sea Islands

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

1008 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

32.26GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

512

Shading Units

32

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

25.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

-

819.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

51.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

55W

TDP

75W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

G84

Cape Verde PRO

GPU Variant

G84-400-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

169 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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