NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 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 950 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1188MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (105.8GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (55W vs 90W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950 +122%

1.825 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

0.819 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950

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Radeon HD 8740 OEM

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Sep 2013

GeForce 900

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1024 MHz

Base Clock

-

1188 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1653 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

105.8GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

8

768

Shading Units

512

48

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

38.02 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

57.02 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.825 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

819.2 GFLOPS

57.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

51.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Cape Verde

GM206-250-A1

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRO

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

90W

TDP

55W

250 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

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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