AMD Radeon HD 8730M vs AMD Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon HD 8730M

AMD Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8730M and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition 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 R9 M395X Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8730M

0.537 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition +593%

3.723 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8730M

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Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

May 2015

Solar System

Generation

Crystal System

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

1365 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

174.7GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

32

-

384

Shading Units

2048

24

TMUs

128

8

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.09 GPixel/s

16.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

116.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

3.723 TFLOPS

537.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.723 TFLOPS

33.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

232.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

250W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Mars

GPU Name

Amethyst

Mars S3 PRO (216-0842027)

GPU Variant

Amethyst XT

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

5 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

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

-

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

6.3

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