Radeon RX 7700S vs HD 8740 OEM

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated111
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data28.25
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code nameCape VerdeNavi 33
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date5 September 2013 (11 years ago)4 January 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$109 no data

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores5122048
Core clock speed800 MHz1500 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2500 MHz
Number of transistors1,500 million13,300 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)55 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rate25.60320.0
Floating-point processing power0.8192 TFLOPS20.48 TFLOPS
ROPs1664
TMUs32128
Ray Tracing Coresno data32

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length168 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount1 GB8 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1125 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth72 GB/s288.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPortPortable Device Dependent
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 September 2013 4 January 2023
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 55 Watt 100 Watt

HD 8740 OEM has 81.8% lower power consumption.

RX 7700S, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 9 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 366.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8740 OEM and Radeon RX 7700S. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 8740 OEM is a desktop card while Radeon RX 7700S is a notebook one.


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