AMD Radeon HD 7730M vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7730M

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7730M and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7730M 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock675MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

496 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 25W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7730M +2282%

0.691 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GS

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7730M

VS

GeForce 8600M GS

Graphics Card

Apr 2012

Release Date

May 2007

London

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

575 MHz

Base Clock

-

675 MHz

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

1

512

Shading Units

16

32

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.800 GPixel/s

21.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.600 GTexel/s

-

691.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

28.80 GFLOPS

43.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

25W

TDP

20W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Chelsea

GPU Name

G86

Chelsea LE (216-0834065)

GPU Variant

G86-770-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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