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 470
CORE STATE
Ellesmere
VRAM
4 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1206 MHz
TDP
120 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 4.0
PROCESS
14 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2016
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
HD 8730M
RX 470
Core Specs
Shading Units
384
2,048
+433.3%
Shaders
384
2,048
+433.3%
TMUs
24
128
+433.3%
ROPs
8
32
+300.0%
Compute Units
6
32
+433.3%
Clocks
Base Clock
650 MHz
926 MHz
Boost Clock
700 MHz
1206 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
1800 Mbps effective
1650 MHz
6.6 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
211.2 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
256 KB
2 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
5.600 GPixel/s
38.59 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
16.80 GTexel/s
154.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
537.6 GFLOPS
4.940 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
33.60 GFLOPS (1:16)
308.7 GFLOPS (1:16)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
4.940 TFLOPS (1:1)
Power
TDP
—
120 W
TDP (W)
—
120
Suggested PSU
—
300 W
Power Connectors
—
1x 6-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 4.0
GPU Name
Mars
Ellesmere
Generation
Solar System
(HD 8700M)
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
Process Size
28 nm
14 nm
Transistors
950 million
5,700 million
Die Size
77 mm²
232 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Density
12.3M / mm²
24.6M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.3
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
2.1
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.7
Physical
Slot Width
—
Dual-slot
Length
—
240 mm
9.4 inches
Height
—
95 mm
3.7 inches
Outputs
—
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
—
179 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
London
Pirate Islands
Successor
Gem System
Polaris