AMD Radeon RX 480 vs AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon RX 480

AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 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 480 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1266MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (55W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480 +612%

5.834 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

0.819 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480

VS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

Graphics Card

Jun 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

1120 MHz

Base Clock

-

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

8

-

2304

Shading Units

512

144

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.60 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

819.2 GFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

51.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

55W

450 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 XT (215-0876184)

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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