AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8740 OEM and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (55W vs 195W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

0.819 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 +1455%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Sep 2013

Release Date

Oct 2022

Sea Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1320 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

28

512

Shading Units

3584

32

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

25.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

819.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

51.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

55W

TDP

195W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

GA104

Cape Verde PRO

GPU Variant

GA104

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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