NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M vs AMD Radeon HD 8730M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M

AMD Radeon HD 8730M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 230M and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8730M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8730M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock700MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

336 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 230M

0.106 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8730M +406%

0.537 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230M

VS

Radeon HD 8730M

Graphics Card

Jun 2009

Release Date

Apr 2013

GeForce 200M

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

650 MHz

-

Boost Clock

700 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

384

16

TMUs

24

8

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.600 GPixel/s

8.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

16.80 GTexel/s

-

105.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

537.6 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

33.60 GFLOPS

Board Design

23W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

GT216

GPU Name

Mars

N10P-GE-A2

GPU Variant

Mars S3 PRO (216-0842027)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.486 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

100 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.2

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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