ATI Radeon HD 5870 vs AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

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ATI Radeon HD 5870 AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8740 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5870 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

1088 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

Lower TDP (55W vs 188W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870 +232%

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

0.819 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870

VS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

Graphics Card

Sep 2009

Release Date

Sep 2013

Evergreen

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

8

1600

Shading Units

512

80

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

819.2 GFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

51.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Cape Verde

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRO

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

188W

TDP

55W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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