AMD Radeon HD 8730M vs AMD Radeon HD 6630M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8730M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6630M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8730M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock700MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

AMD Radeon HD 6630M 's Advantages

96 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8730M +11%

0.537 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6630M

0.48 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8730M

VS

Radeon HD 6630M

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Jan 2011

Solar System

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

650 MHz

Base Clock

-

700 MHz

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

6

Compute Units

6

384

Shading Units

480

24

TMUs

24

8

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

5.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

16.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

537.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

480.0 GFLOPS

33.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Mars

GPU Name

Whistler

Mars S3 PRO (216-0842027)

GPU Variant

Whistler LP

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

26W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

1.2

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

5.0

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