NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8740 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1455MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.1GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (55W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1050 +127%

1.862 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

0.819 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050

VS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2016

Release Date

Sep 2013

GeForce 10

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1354 MHz

Base Clock

-

1455 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1752 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.1GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

5

SM Count

-

Compute Units

8

640

Shading Units

512

40

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

46.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

58.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.60 GTexel/s

29.10 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1.862 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

819.2 GFLOPS

58.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

51.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP107

GPU Name

Cape Verde

GP107-300-A1

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRO

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.3 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

132 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

55W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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