AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP vs AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP

AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 896SP 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 560 896SP 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1175MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (45W vs 55W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560 896SP +157%

2.106 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

0.819 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560 896SP

VS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

Graphics Card

Jul 2017

Release Date

Sep 2013

Polaris

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1090 MHz

Base Clock

-

1175 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

8

-

896

Shading Units

512

56

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

65.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.60 GTexel/s

2.106 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.106 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

819.2 GFLOPS

131.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

51.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

45W

TDP

55W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Polaris 21

GPU Name

Cape Verde

Polaris 21 XL

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRO

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

123 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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