AMD Radeon HD 8730M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8730M

NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8730M and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9650M GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8730M 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock700MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

352 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8730M +571%

0.537 TFLOPS

GeForce 9650M GS

0.08 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8730M

VS

GeForce 9650M GS

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Mar 2008

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 9M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

650 MHz

Base Clock

-

700 MHz

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

384

Shading Units

32

24

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.000 GPixel/s

16.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.00 GTexel/s

-

537.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

33.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

29W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Mars

GPU Name

G84

Mars S3 PRO (216-0842027)

GPU Variant

NB9P-GS1-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

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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