AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT vs AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro 5500 XT and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8740 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1757MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (55W vs 125W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro 5500 XT +559%

5.398 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

0.819 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 5500 XT

VS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

Graphics Card

Aug 2020

Release Date

Sep 2013

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1187 MHz

Base Clock

-

1757 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

8

-

1536

Shading Units

512

96

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

56.22 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

168.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.60 GTexel/s

10.80 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.398 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

819.2 GFLOPS

337.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

51.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

125W

TDP

55W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

No outputs

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

Cape Verde

Navi 14 PRO XL

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRO

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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