AMD Radeon HD 8730M vs AMD Radeon E8870

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8730M and 4GB VRAM Radeon E8870 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

AMD Radeon E8870 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8730M

0.537 TFLOPS

Radeon E8870 +186%

1.536 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8730M

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Radeon E8870

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Sep 2015

Solar System

Generation

Embedded

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

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

6

Compute Units

12

384

Shading Units

768

24

TMUs

48

8

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

5.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.00 GPixel/s

16.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

537.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

33.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

96.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Mars

GPU Name

Saturn

Mars S3 PRO (216-0842027)

GPU Variant

Saturn PRO

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

2.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

6.3

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