NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A vs AMD Radeon HD 8730M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A

AMD Radeon HD 8730M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960A 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 960A 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 55% (1085MHz vs 700MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960A +158%

1.389 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8730M

0.537 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960A

VS

Radeon HD 8730M

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Apr 2013

GeForce 900A

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1029 MHz

Base Clock

650 MHz

1085 MHz

Boost Clock

700 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

-

640

Shading Units

384

40

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.600 GPixel/s

43.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

16.80 GTexel/s

-

1389 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

537.6 GFLOPS

43.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

33.60 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

Mars

N16P-GX-A1

GPU Variant

Mars S3 PRO (216-0842027)

Maxwell

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.3

Vulkan

1.2.170

5.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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