AMD Radeon HD 8730M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8730M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8730M and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 860M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 55% (1085MHz vs 700MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8730M

0.537 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 860M +158%

1.389 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8730M

VS

GeForce GTX 860M

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Jan 2014

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 800M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

650 MHz

Base Clock

1020 MHz

700 MHz

Boost Clock

1085 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

384

Shading Units

640

24

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.36 GPixel/s

16.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

43.40 GTexel/s

-

537.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1389 GFLOPS

33.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

43.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

75W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Mars

GPU Name

GM107

Mars S3 PRO (216-0842027)

GPU Variant

N15P-GX-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

148 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

1.3

-

CUDA

5.0

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

5.1

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