AMD Radeon HD 8730M vs AMD Radeon 520 Mobile

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AMD Radeon HD 8730M AMD Radeon 520 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8730M and 2GB VRAM Radeon 520 Mobile 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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

64 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon 520 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8730M

0.537 TFLOPS

Radeon 520 Mobile +22%

0.659 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8730M

VS

Radeon 520 Mobile

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Apr 2017

Solar System

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

650 MHz

Base Clock

-

700 MHz

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

6

Compute Units

5

384

Shading Units

320

24

TMUs

20

8

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

5.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.240 GPixel/s

16.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

20.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

537.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

659.2 GFLOPS

33.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

41.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Mars

GPU Name

Banks

Mars S3 PRO (216-0842027)

GPU Variant

Banks PRO (216-0568010)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

56 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

50W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

1.2

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

5.1

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