AMD Radeon HD 8730M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8730M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8730M and 512MB VRAM GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8730M 's Advantages

Boost Clock700MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.00GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8730M

0.537 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition +35%

0.73 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8730M

VS

GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Apr 2013

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 600M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

650 MHz

Base Clock

-

700 MHz

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

80.00GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

384

Shading Units

384

24

TMUs

32

8

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.600 GPixel/s

16.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.40 GTexel/s

-

537.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

729.6 GFLOPS

33.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

30.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

50W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Mars

GPU Name

GK107

Mars S3 PRO (216-0842027)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

1.27 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

5.1

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