Radeon HD 8740 OEM and A2 - video card comparison

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

A2

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Cape Verde

GA107

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

September 2013

November 2021

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

None

None

Boost clock speed

-

1770 MHz

Core clock speed

800 MHz

-

Floating-point performance

819.2 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

1,500 million

-

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

1280

Power consumption (TDP)

55 Watt

60 Watt

Texture fill rate

25.60

70.80

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

16 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

4500 MHz

12.5 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

72 GB/s

200.1 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

No outputs

HDMI

+

-

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

-

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.6

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.2