AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 7970

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

AMD Radeon HD 7970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8740 OEM and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 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 1 years and 9 months late

Lower TDP (55W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

0.819 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 +362%

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 7970

Graphics Card

Sep 2013

Release Date

Dec 2011

Sea Islands

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

32

-

512

Shading Units

2048

32

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

25.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

-

819.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

51.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

55W

TDP

250W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

Tahiti

Cape Verde PRO

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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