AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM vs AMD Radeon 550

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

AMD Radeon 550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8740 OEM and 2GB VRAM Radeon 550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 56.00GB/s)

AMD Radeon 550 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 55W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

0.819 TFLOPS

Radeon 550 +47%

1.211 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

VS

Radeon 550

Graphics Card

Sep 2013

Release Date

Apr 2017

Sea Islands

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1100 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1183 MHz

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

56.00GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

8

-

512

Shading Units

512

32

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

25.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.86 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1211 GFLOPS

819.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1211 GFLOPS

51.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.71 GFLOPS

Board Design

55W

TDP

50W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

Lexa

Cape Verde PRO

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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