Radeon RX 5600 XT and Radeon HD 8740 OEM - video card comparison

Radeon RX 5600 XT

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

Architecture

RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GPU code name

Navi 10

Cape Verde

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

January 2020

September 2013

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 8-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1750 MHz

Core clock speed

1235 MHz

800 MHz

Floating-point performance

819.2 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

7 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

10,300 million

1,500 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2304

512

Power consumption (TDP)

150 Watt

55 Watt

Texture fill rate

224.6

25.60

Memory type

GDDR6

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

6 GB

1 GB

Memory bus width

192 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

14000 MHz

4500 MHz

Memory bandwidth

288.0 GB/s

72 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 (11_1)

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

5.1

Vulkan

1.2.131