AMD Radeon HD 8730M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q

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AMD Radeon HD 8730M NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8730M and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4050 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 129% (1605MHz vs 700MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

2176 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8730M

0.537 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4050 Max Q +1430%

8.218 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8730M

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GeForce RTX 4050 Max Q

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Jan 2023

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 40 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

650 MHz

Base Clock

1140 MHz

700 MHz

Boost Clock

1605 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

96bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

20

6

Compute Units

-

384

Shading Units

2560

24

TMUs

80

8

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

12 MB

Theoretical Performance

5.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

77.04 GPixel/s

16.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

8.218 TFLOPS

537.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.218 TFLOPS

33.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

128.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Mars

GPU Name

AD107

Mars S3 PRO (216-0842027)

GPU Variant

GN21-X2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

Unknown

77 mm²

Die Size

146 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

35W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.9

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

6.7

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