GeForce 845M and Radeon HD 6730M - video card comparison

GeForce 845M

Radeon HD 6730M

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

Terascale 2 (2009−2015)

GPU code name

GM108

Whistler-XT

Market segment

Laptop

Release date

March 2014

January 2011

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

MXM-A (3.0)

Boost clock speed

1150 MHz

Core clock speed

1071 MHz

725 MHz

Floating-point performance

883.7 gflops

696.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

1,870 million

716 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

384

480

Power consumption (TDP)

45 Watt

35 Watt

Texture fill rate

37.63

17.40

Memory type

DDR3, GDDR5

DDR3

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

1 GB

Memory bus width

64/128 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

2000 - 5000 MHz

800 MHz

Memory bandwidth

40.1 GB/s

25.6 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

DirectX

12 (11_0)

11.2 (11_0)

CUDA

OpenCL

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

4.4

Shader Model

5.1

5.0

Vulkan

1.1.126

N/A

Optimus