AMD Radeon RX 6500M vs AMD Radeon HD 8730M

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6500M

AMD Radeon HD 8730M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500M and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8730M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6500M 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 243% (2400MHz vs 700MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6500M +815%

4.915 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8730M

0.537 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6500M

VS

Radeon HD 8730M

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Apr 2013

Mobility Radeon

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

2000 MHz

Base Clock

650 MHz

2400 MHz

Boost Clock

700 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

144.0GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

6

-

1024

Shading Units

384

64

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

8

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

16 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

76.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.600 GPixel/s

153.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

16.80 GTexel/s

9.830 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.915 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

537.6 GFLOPS

307.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

33.60 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Navi 24

GPU Name

Mars

Navi 24 XM

GPU Variant

Mars S3 PRO (216-0842027)

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.4 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

107 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.2

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.3

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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