AMD Radeon HD 8730M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M LE

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8730M

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M LE

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8730M and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 240M LE to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8730M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock700MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

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

352 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8730M +459%

0.537 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 240M LE

0.096 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8730M

VS

GeForce GT 240M LE

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Jan 2010

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 200M

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

400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/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

4.800 GPixel/s

16.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.600 GTexel/s

-

537.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

96.00 GFLOPS

33.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

23W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Mars

GPU Name

G96C

Mars S3 PRO (216-0842027)

GPU Variant

N10P-GE1

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

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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