AMD Radeon HD 8730M vs AMD Radeon HD 6950M

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8730M

AMD Radeon HD 6950M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8730M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6950M 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 1024GB)

AMD Radeon HD 6950M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8730M

0.537 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950M +107%

1.114 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8730M

VS

Radeon HD 6950M

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Jan 2011

Solar System

Generation

Vancouver

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

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

12

-

384

Shading Units

960

24

TMUs

48

8

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.56 GPixel/s

16.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.84 GTexel/s

-

537.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1114 GFLOPS

33.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

50W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Mars

GPU Name

Blackcomb

Mars S3 PRO (216-0842027)

GPU Variant

Blackcomb PRO

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

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

-

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

5.0

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