ATI Radeon X550 XT vs AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

VS

ATI Radeon X550 XT

AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Radeon X550 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 HD 8740 OEM 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon X550 XT

VS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2007

Release Date

Sep 2013

Radeon R300

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

300 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

9.600GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

-

Shading Units

512

4

TMUs

32

4

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

1.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.60 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

819.2 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

51.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

55W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

RV410

GPU Name

Cape Verde

-

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRO

R400

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.12 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

156 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0b (9_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

Shader Model

5.1

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