GPU Comparison
RADEON
AMD Radeon HD 8730M
CORE STATE
Mars
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
700 MHz
TDP
—
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 1.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2013
VS
RADEON
Radeon RX 9070 XT
CORE STATE
Navi 48
VRAM
16 GB
CLOCK SPEED
2970 MHz
TDP
304 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
RDNA 4.0
PROCESS
4 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2025
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_vulkan
passmark_directx_10
passmark_directx_11
passmark_directx_12
passmark_directx_9
passmark_g2d
passmark_g3d
passmark_gpu_compute
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
HD 8730M
RX 9070 XT
Core Specs
Shading Units
384
4,096
+966.7%
Shaders
384
4,096
+966.7%
TMUs
24
256
+966.7%
ROPs
8
128
+1500.0%
Compute Units
6
64
+966.7%
Clocks
Base Clock
650 MHz
1660 MHz
Boost Clock
700 MHz
2970 MHz
Game Clock
—
2400 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
1800 Mbps effective
2518 MHz
20.1 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
2 GB
16 GB
VRAM (MB)
2,048
16,384
+700.0%
Memory Type
DDR3
GDDR6
Memory Bus
128 bit
256 bit
Bandwidth
28.80 GB/s
644.6 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
—
L2 Cache
256 KB
8 MB
L3 Cache
—
64 MB
L0 Cache
—
32 KB per WGP
Performance
Pixel Rate
5.600 GPixel/s
380.2 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
16.80 GTexel/s
760.3 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
537.6 GFLOPS
48.66 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
33.60 GFLOPS (1:16)
1.521 TFLOPS (1:32)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
97.32 TFLOPS (2:1)
AI/RT
RT Cores
—
64
Matrix Cores
—
128
Power
TDP
—
304 W
TDP (W)
—
304
Suggested PSU
—
700 W
Power Connectors
—
2x 8-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 1.0
RDNA 4.0
GPU Name
Mars
Navi 48
Generation
Solar System
(HD 8700M)
Navi IV
(RX 9000)
Process Size
28 nm
4 nm
Transistors
950 million
53,900 million
Die Size
77 mm²
357 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
12.3M / mm²
151.0M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.4
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
2.2
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
—
Dual-slot
Outputs
—
1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1a
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 5.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
—
599 USD
Production
End-of-life
Active
Predecessor
London
Navi III
Successor
Gem System
—