NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 vs AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 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 1060 3 GB GP104 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1708MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (55W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 +380%

3.935 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

0.819 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

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Radeon HD 8740 OEM

Graphics Card

Dec 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

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

9

SM Count

-

Compute Units

8

1152

Shading Units

512

72

TMUs

32

48

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.60 GTexel/s

61.49 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.935 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

819.2 GFLOPS

123.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

51.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Cape Verde

GP104-140-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRO

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

55W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

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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