NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs AMD Radeon HD 8730A

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

AMD Radeon HD 8730A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M 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 980M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 61% (1127MHz vs 700MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980M +544%

3.462 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8730A

0.537 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M

VS

Radeon HD 8730A

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Apr 2013

GeForce 900M

Generation

All-In-One

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1038 MHz

Base Clock

650 MHz

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

700 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.4GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

-

1536

Shading Units

384

96

TMUs

24

64

ROPs

8

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

72.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.600 GPixel/s

108.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

16.80 GTexel/s

-

3.462 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

537.6 GFLOPS

108.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

33.60 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Mars

N16E-GX-A1

GPU Variant

Mars M2 LP (216-0842009)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

398 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

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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