AMD Radeon R7 250 vs AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon R7 250

AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250 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 HD 8740 OEM 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 250

0.717 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM +14%

0.819 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250

VS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Sep 2013

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

8

-

512

Shading Units

512

32

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

22.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.60 GTexel/s

-

716.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

819.2 GFLOPS

44.80 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

51.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

55W

TDP

55W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

Cape Verde

Cape Verde PRO

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRO

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

123 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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