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 970
CORE STATE
GM204
VRAM
4 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1178 MHz
TDP
148 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Maxwell 2.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2014
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
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
GTX 970
Core Specs
Shading Units
384
1,664
+333.3%
Shaders
384
1,664
+333.3%
TMUs
24
104
+333.3%
ROPs
8
56
+600.0%
Compute Units
6
—
Clocks
Base Clock
650 MHz
1050 MHz
Boost Clock
700 MHz
1178 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
1800 Mbps effective
1753 MHz
7 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
2 GB
4 GB
VRAM (MB)
2,048
4,096
+100.0%
Memory Type
DDR3
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128 bit
256 bit
Bandwidth
28.80 GB/s
224.4 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
256 KB
2 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
5.600 GPixel/s
65.97 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
16.80 GTexel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
537.6 GFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
33.60 GFLOPS (1:16)
122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)
Power
TDP
—
148 W
TDP (W)
—
148
Suggested PSU
—
300 W
Power Connectors
—
2x 6-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Maxwell 2.0
GPU Name
Mars
GM204
Generation
Solar System
(HD 8700M)
GeForce 900
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
950 million
5,200 million
Die Size
77 mm²
398 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
12.3M / mm²
13.1M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.4
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
3.0
CUDA
—
5.2
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
—
Dual-slot
Length
—
267 mm
10.5 inches
Height
—
111 mm
4.4 inches
Outputs
—
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
—
329 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
London
GeForce 700
Successor
Gem System
GeForce 10