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
GEFORCE
GeForce GTX 590
CORE STATE
GF110
VRAM
1536 MB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
365 W
BUS WIDTH
384 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Fermi 2.0
PROCESS
40 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2011
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
HD 8730M
GTX 590
Core Specs
Shading Units
384
512
+33.3%
Shaders
384
512
+33.3%
TMUs
24
64
+166.7%
ROPs
8
48
+500.0%
Compute Units
6
—
SM Count
—
16
Clocks
Base Clock
650 MHz
—
Boost Clock
700 MHz
—
GPU Clock
—
608 MHz
Shader Clock
—
1215 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
1800 Mbps effective
854 MHz
3.4 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
2 GB
1536 MB
VRAM (MB)
2,048
1,536
-25.0%
Memory Type
DDR3
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128 bit
384 bit
Bandwidth
28.80 GB/s
164.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
256 KB
768 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
5.600 GPixel/s
19.46 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
16.80 GTexel/s
38.91 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
537.6 GFLOPS
1,244.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
33.60 GFLOPS (1:16)
155.5 GFLOPS (1:8)
Power
TDP
—
365 W
TDP (W)
—
365
Suggested PSU
—
750 W
Power Connectors
—
2x 8-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Fermi 2.0
GPU Name
Mars
GF110
Generation
Solar System
(HD 8700M)
GeForce 500
Process Size
28 nm
40 nm
Transistors
950 million
3,000 million
Die Size
77 mm²
520 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
12.3M / mm²
5.8M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.2.170
—
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
1.1
CUDA
—
2.0
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
5.1
Physical
Slot Width
—
Dual-slot
Length
—
279 mm
11 inches
Height
—
111 mm
4.4 inches
Outputs
—
3x DVI1x mini-DisplayPort
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 2.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
—
699 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
London
GeForce 400
Successor
Gem System
GeForce 600