AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM

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AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8740 OEM and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 240 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 4 years and 2 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 70.40GB/s)

400 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (55W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8740 OEM +125%

0.819 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 240 OEM

0.363 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

VS

GeForce GTS 240 OEM

Graphics Card

Sep 2013

Release Date

Jul 2009

Sea Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

1100 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

70.40GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

14

512

Shading Units

112

32

TMUs

56

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.80 GPixel/s

25.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.80 GTexel/s

-

819.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

362.9 GFLOPS

51.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

55W

TDP

120W

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

G92B

Cape Verde PRO

GPU Variant

G92-240-B1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

260 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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