Radeon HD 8740 OEM and GeForce FX 5500 PCI - video card comparison

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

GeForce FX 5500 PCI

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Rankine (2003−2005)

GPU code name

Cape Verde

NV34 B1

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

September 2013

March 2004

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCI

Supplementary power connectors

None

Core clock speed

800 MHz

270 MHz

Floating-point performance

819.2 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

150 nm

Number of transistors

1,500 million

45 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

Power consumption (TDP)

55 Watt

Texture fill rate

25.60

1.080

Memory type

GDDR5

DDR

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

256 MB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

4500 MHz

400 MHz

Memory bandwidth

72 GB/s

6.4 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

HDMI

DirectX

12 (11_1)

9.0a

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

1.5 (2.1)

Shader Model

5.1

Vulkan

1.2.131

N/A