AMD Radeon HD 8730M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 360M

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AMD Radeon HD 8730M

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 360M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8730M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 360M 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 1024GB)

288 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 360M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8730M +94%

0.537 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 360M

0.276 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8730M

VS

GeForce GTS 360M

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Jan 2010

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 300M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

650 MHz

Base Clock

-

700 MHz

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

384

Shading Units

96

24

TMUs

32

8

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

16.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.60 GTexel/s

-

537.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

275.7 GFLOPS

33.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

38W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Mars

GPU Name

GT215

Mars S3 PRO (216-0842027)

GPU Variant

N11E-GS1-A3

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

1.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

4.1

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