AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

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AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8740 OEM and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6950 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

Lower TDP (55W vs 335W)

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock2310MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

4608 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

0.819 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT +2787%

23.65 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

VS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

Graphics Card

Sep 2013

Release Date

May 2022

Sea Islands

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1860 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2310 MHz

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

576.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

80

512

Shading Units

5120

32

TMUs

320

16

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

80

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

256 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

12.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

295.7 GPixel/s

25.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

739.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

47.31 TFLOPS

819.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.65 TFLOPS

51.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1478 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

Navi 21

Cape Verde PRO

GPU Variant

Navi 21 KXTX (215-121000289)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

26.8 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Board Design

55W

TDP

335W

250 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5

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