Radeon HD 8740 OEM and GeForce 6800 GT Dual - video card comparison
Radeon HD 8740 OEM
GeForce 6800 GT Dual
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
Cape Verde
NV45
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2013
June 2004
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
800 MHz
350 MHz
Floating-point performance
819.2 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
1,500 million
222 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
-
Power consumption (TDP)
55 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
25.60
5.600
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
256 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
4500 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
72 GB/s
32 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (11_1)
9.0c (9_3)
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
Shader Model
5.1
3.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A