AMD Radeon HD 8730M vs NVIDIA GeForce 945M

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8730M

NVIDIA GeForce 945M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8730M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 945M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8730M 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 16.02GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce 945M 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 70% (1189MHz vs 700MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8730M

0.537 TFLOPS

GeForce 945M +70%

0.913 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8730M

VS

GeForce 945M

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Apr 2016

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

650 MHz

Base Clock

1006 MHz

700 MHz

Boost Clock

1189 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

16.02GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

384

Shading Units

384

24

TMUs

24

8

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.512 GPixel/s

16.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.54 GTexel/s

-

537.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

913.2 GFLOPS

33.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

28.54 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

23W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Mars

GPU Name

GM108

Mars S3 PRO (216-0842027)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

Unknown

77 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.0

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

5.1

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