AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM vs ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8740 OEM and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4850 X2 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 10 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 63.68GB/s)

Lower TDP (55W vs 250W)

ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2 's Advantages

288 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

0.819 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4850 X2 +22%

1 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 4850 X2

Graphics Card

Sep 2013

Release Date

Nov 2008

Sea Islands

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

995 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

63.68GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

10

-

512

Shading Units

800

32

TMUs

40

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

10.00 GPixel/s

25.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.00 GTexel/s

-

819.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1000 GFLOPS

51.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

200.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

55W

TDP

250W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

4x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

R700

Cape Verde PRO

GPU Variant

R700 PRO (215-0669065)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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