AMD Radeon HD 8870M vs AMD Radeon HD 6730M

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8870M

AMD Radeon HD 6730M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6730M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8870M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock775MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

160 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8870M +42%

0.992 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6730M

0.696 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870M

VS

Radeon HD 6730M

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Jan 2011

Solar System

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

725 MHz

Base Clock

-

775 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

6

-

640

Shading Units

480

40

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.800 GPixel/s

31.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.40 GTexel/s

-

992.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

696.0 GFLOPS

62.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

35W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Venus

GPU Name

Whistler

Venus XT (216-0846000)

GPU Variant

Whistler LE

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

104 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

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon HD 8870M vs NVIDIA GeForce 920MX

2

AMD Radeon HD 8870M vs AMD FirePro S7100X

3

AMD Radeon HD 8870M vs AMD Radeon R5 A320

4

AMD Radeon HD 8870M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q

5

AMD Radeon HD 8870M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650

6

AMD Radeon HD 8870M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile

7

AMD Radeon HD 8870M vs AMD FirePro M5100

8

AMD Radeon HD 8870M vs NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT

9

AMD Radeon HD 8870M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

10

AMD Radeon HD 8870M vs AMD Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition

Related News

1

Intel's Entry-Level CPU Core Ultra 3 205 Spotted: Only One Model Available

2

Introducing the AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX: A First Look at the Flagship Gaming Laptop CPU

3

AMD's Thunderous Strike: Ryzen 9 9950X3D Performance Scores Revealed for the First Time!

4

Continuous Decline in DRAM Memory Prices: Downward Trend Intensifies

5

NVIDIA GB202 Chip Unveiled for the First Time, to be Used in RTX 5090 with 512-bit GDDR7 Memory

6

Strix Halo Integrated Graphics Score Appears on Passmark, Currently Slightly Below RTX 3060 12GB

7

AMD Unveils New RX 9070 XT Graphics Card Performance: Positioned Between RX 7900 GRE and RX 7900 XT

8

Double the Excitement! AMD FSR 4.0 to Launch Alongside RX 9070 XT Graphics Card

9

CPU-Z Minor Update: Support for Intel's Four New Products and New Memory

10

CXMT Reportedly Achieves 80% Yield in DDR5 Production