AMD Radeon HD 8730A vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon HD 8730A NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8730A and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8730A 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock700MHz

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.00GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)

352 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8730A +571%

0.537 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition

0.08 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8730A

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GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Oct 2008

All-In-One

Generation

GeForce 9M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

650 MHz

Base Clock

-

700 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

792 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

25.34GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

6

Compute Units

-

384

Shading Units

32

24

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

5.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

16.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

537.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

33.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Mars

GPU Name

G96C

Mars M2 LP (216-0842009)

GPU Variant

NB9P-GS

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

121 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

23W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

1.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

4.0

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