AMD Radeon HD 8730M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8730M

NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8730M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 525M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8730M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock700MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

288 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8730M +133%

0.537 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 525M

0.23 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8730M

VS

GeForce GT 525M

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Jan 2011

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 500M

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

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

384

Shading Units

96

24

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

16.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.600 GTexel/s

-

537.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

230.4 GFLOPS

33.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

19.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

23W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Mars

GPU Name

GF108

Mars S3 PRO (216-0842027)

GPU Variant

N12P-GE-OP-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

1.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

5.1

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