NVIDIA GeForce GT 730M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 730M ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 730M and 512MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 3870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 730M 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

64 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (33W vs 55W)

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (54.40GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 730M +30%

0.552 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 3870

0.422 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 730M

VS

Mobility Radeon HD 3870

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 700M

Generation

M8x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

54.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

4

384

Shading Units

320

32

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

5.752 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.56 GPixel/s

23.01 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.56 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

552.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

422.4 GFLOPS

23.01 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

84.48 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK208

GPU Name

M88

GT 730M

GPU Variant

-

Kepler 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.02 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

87 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Board Design

33W

TDP

55W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.5

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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