AMD Radeon RX 470 vs AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon RX 470

AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 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 RX 470 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1206MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (55W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470 +503%

4.94 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

0.819 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470

VS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Sep 2013

Arctic Islands

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

-

1206 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1650 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

211.2GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

8

-

2048

Shading Units

512

128

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

154.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.60 GTexel/s

4.940 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.940 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

819.2 GFLOPS

308.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

51.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

55W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Cape Verde

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRO

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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