AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM vs ATI Radeon HD 3730

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

ATI Radeon HD 3730

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8740 OEM and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3730 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 4 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 12.67GB/s)

392 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (55W vs 65W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8740 OEM +373%

0.819 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3730

0.173 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 3730

Graphics Card

Sep 2013

Release Date

Oct 2008

Sea Islands

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

396 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

12.67GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

3

-

512

Shading Units

120

32

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.888 GPixel/s

25.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.776 GTexel/s

-

819.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

173.3 GFLOPS

51.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

55W

TDP

65W

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

None

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

RV635

Cape Verde PRO

GPU Variant

RV635 PRO (215-0682008)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

0.378 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

135 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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