AMD Radeon HD 8870M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 730A

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8870M

NVIDIA GeForce GT 730A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870M and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 730A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8870M 's Advantages

Boost Clock775MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 16.02GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 730A 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8870M +79%

0.992 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 730A

0.552 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870M

VS

GeForce GT 730A

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Jul 2014

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 700A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

725 MHz

Base Clock

-

775 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

16.02GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

384

40

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.752 GPixel/s

31.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

23.01 GTexel/s

-

992.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

552.2 GFLOPS

62.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

23.01 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

33W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Venus

GPU Name

GK208

Venus XT (216-0846000)

GPU Variant

GT 730M

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Kepler 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

1.02 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

87 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.5

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

5.1

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