AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

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AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8740 OEM and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5070 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 220W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.0GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

5888 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

0.819 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5070 +3838%

32.26 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

VS

GeForce RTX 5070

Graphics Card

Sep 2013

Release Date

Jan 2025

Sea Islands

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2235 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR7

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

120.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

50

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

6400

32

TMUs

200

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

200

-

RT Cores

50

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

40 MB

Theoretical Performance

12.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

161.3 GPixel/s

25.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

504.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

32.26 TFLOPS

819.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

32.26 TFLOPS

51.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

504.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

GB205

Cape Verde PRO

GPU Variant

GB205

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

0 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

Unknown

123 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

55W

TDP

220W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

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

9.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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