AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

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AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 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 RX 5700 XT 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1905MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (55W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5700 XT +1090%

9.754 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

0.819 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5700 XT

VS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

Graphics Card

Jul 2019

Release Date

Sep 2013

Navi

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1605 MHz

Base Clock

-

1905 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

40

Compute Units

8

2560

Shading Units

512

160

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

121.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

304.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.60 GTexel/s

19.51 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.754 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

819.2 GFLOPS

609.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

51.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 10

GPU Name

Cape Verde

Navi 10 XT (215-0917210)

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRO

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

10.3 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

251 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

225W

TDP

55W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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