AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8740 OEM and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 550 Ti 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 6 months late

320 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (55W vs 116W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (98.50GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8740 OEM +18%

0.819 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

0.691 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

VS

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Graphics Card

Sep 2013

Release Date

Mar 2011

Sea Islands

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

1026 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

98.50GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

512

Shading Units

192

32

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

24

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.200 GPixel/s

25.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.80 GTexel/s

-

819.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

691.2 GFLOPS

51.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.60 GFLOPS

Board Design

55W

TDP

116W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 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

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

GF116

Cape Verde PRO

GPU Variant

GF116-400-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

1.17 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

238 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

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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