AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 8730M

VS

AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile AMD Radeon HD 8730M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 Mobile 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 470 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 53% (1074MHz vs 700MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470 Mobile +719%

4.399 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8730M

0.537 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470 Mobile

VS

Radeon HD 8730M

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Apr 2013

Mobility Radeon

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

650 MHz

1074 MHz

Boost Clock

700 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

6

2048

Shading Units

384

128

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

34.37 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.600 GPixel/s

137.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

16.80 GTexel/s

4.399 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.399 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

537.6 GFLOPS

274.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

33.60 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Mars

Ellesmere PRO

GPU Variant

Mars S3 PRO (216-0842027)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Board Design

85W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.2

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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