GeForce GT 740 and Radeon HD 8470 OEM - video card comparison

GeForce GT 740

Radeon HD 8470 OEM

Architecture

Kepler (2012−2018)

TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)

GPU code name

GK107

Caicos

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

May 2014

January 2013

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

None

Core clock speed

993 MHz

775 MHz

Floating-point performance

762.6 gflops

248.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

1,270 million

370 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

384

160

Power consumption (TDP)

64 Watt

35 Watt

Texture fill rate

31.78

6.200

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

1 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

5012 MHz

3200 MHz

Memory bandwidth

80.19 GB/s

25.6 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI

1x DVI, 1x HDMI

HDMI

DirectX

12 (11_0)

11.2 (11_0)

CUDA

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

4.4

Shader Model

5.1

5.0

Vulkan

1.1.126

N/A