Radeon HD 8550 OEM and GeForce GT 740 OEM - video card comparison
Radeon HD 8550 OEM
GeForce GT 740 OEM
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name
Turks
GK106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2013
April 2015
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
650 MHz
1050 MHz
Floating-point performance
624.0 gflops
772.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
716 million
2,540 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
480
384
Power consumption (TDP)
60 Watt
65 Watt
Texture fill rate
15.60
33.60
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1600 MHz
5012 MHz
Memory bandwidth
25.6 GB/s
80.19 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.1.126