AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8740 OEM and 256MB VRAM Quadro FX 3450 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 8 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (55W vs 83W)

Score

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

VS

Quadro FX 3450

Graphics Card

Sep 2013

Release Date

Jul 2005

Sea Islands

Generation

Quadro FX Curie

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

-

32

TMUs

12

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

12.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.400 GPixel/s

25.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.100 GTexel/s

-

819.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

51.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

55W

TDP

83W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 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

NV41

Cape Verde PRO

GPU Variant

NV41 GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

130 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

0.19 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

225 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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