AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8740 OEM and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 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 3 years and 6 months late

32 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (55W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (177.4GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

0.819 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480 +64%

1.345 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

VS

GeForce GTX 480

Graphics Card

Sep 2013

Release Date

Mar 2010

Sea Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

924 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

177.4GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

15

512

Shading Units

480

32

TMUs

60

16

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.03 GPixel/s

25.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.06 GTexel/s

-

819.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1345 GFLOPS

51.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

168.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

55W

TDP

250W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

GF100

Cape Verde PRO

GPU Variant

GF100-375-A3

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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