AMD Radeon HD 8730A vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon HD 8730A NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8730A and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8730A 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.00GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 61% (1124MHz vs 700MHz)

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8730A

0.537 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition +167%

1.439 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8730A

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GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Mar 2015

All-In-One

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

650 MHz

Base Clock

993 MHz

700 MHz

Boost Clock

1124 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

6

Compute Units

-

384

Shading Units

640

24

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

5.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.98 GPixel/s

16.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.96 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

537.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1439 GFLOPS

33.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

44.96 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Mars

GPU Name

GM107

Mars M2 LP (216-0842009)

GPU Variant

N16P-GT

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

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

1.3

-

CUDA

5.0

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

5.1

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