AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8740 OEM and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 XT 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 6 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

192 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (55W vs 215W)

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (106.0GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8740 OEM +72%

0.819 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 XT

0.476 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 2900 XT

Graphics Card

Sep 2013

Release Date

May 2007

Sea Islands

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

828 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

106.0GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

4

-

512

Shading Units

320

32

TMUs

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.89 GPixel/s

25.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.89 GTexel/s

-

819.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

475.5 GFLOPS

51.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

55W

TDP

215W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

R600

Cape Verde PRO

GPU Variant

R600 XT (215RGMDKA13FG)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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