GeForce GTX 690 vs Radeon HD 8740 OEM

GeForce GTX 690
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 3 May 2012
GeForce GTX 690
Radeon HD 8740 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Sep 2013
Radeon HD 8740 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 690

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8740 OEM

245 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 690 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 690

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 690

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 690Radeon HD 8740 OEM
GPU NameGK104 (GK104-355-A2)vsCape Verde (Cape Verde PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size294 mm²vs123 mm²
Transistors3,540 millionvs1,500 million
Shaders1536vs512
Compute Units8vs8
Core clock915 MHzvs800 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs128vs32

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 690Radeon HD 8740 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bit x2vs128 bit
Memory Speed1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
vs1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 690Radeon HD 8740 OEM
TDP300 wattsvs55 watts
Release Date3 May 2012vs5 Sep 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 690
    58.60 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 8740 OEM
    12.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 690
    234.00 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 8740 OEM
    25.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 690
    384.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 8740 OEM
    72.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 690
    5622.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 8740 OEM
    819.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better