NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 8730M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

AMD Radeon HD 8730M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8730M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 139% (1670MHz vs 700MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile +696%

4.275 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8730M

0.537 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

VS

Radeon HD 8730M

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Apr 2013

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1404 MHz

Base Clock

650 MHz

1670 MHz

Boost Clock

700 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

384

80

TMUs

24

48

ROPs

8

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

80.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.600 GPixel/s

133.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

16.80 GTexel/s

66.80 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.275 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

537.6 GFLOPS

133.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

33.60 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Mars

N17E-G1-A1

GPU Variant

Mars S3 PRO (216-0842027)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.3

Vulkan

1.2.170

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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