AMD Radeon HD 8730M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M

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AMD Radeon HD 8730M

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8730M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 150M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8730M 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock700MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

320 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8730M +319%

0.537 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 150M

0.128 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8730M

VS

GeForce GTS 150M

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Mar 2009

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 100M

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

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

SM Count

8

384

Shading Units

64

24

TMUs

32

8

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.400 GPixel/s

16.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.80 GTexel/s

-

537.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

128.0 GFLOPS

33.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

45W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Mars

GPU Name

G94

Mars S3 PRO (216-0842027)

GPU Variant

N10E-GE1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

240 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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