NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M vs AMD Radeon HD 8730A

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M

AMD Radeon HD 8730A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8730A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

AMD Radeon HD 8730A 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock700MHz

96 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 470M +14%

0.616 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8730A

0.537 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470M

VS

Radeon HD 8730A

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Apr 2013

GeForce 400M

Generation

All-In-One

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

650 MHz

-

Boost Clock

700 MHz

750 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

SM Count

-

288

Shading Units

384

48

TMUs

24

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

384 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.420 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.600 GPixel/s

25.68 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

16.80 GTexel/s

-

616.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

537.6 GFLOPS

51.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

33.60 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GF104

GPU Name

Mars

N11E-GT

GPU Variant

Mars M2 LP (216-0842009)

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.95 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

332 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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