GeForce GT 525M and Radeon HD 8730 OEM - video card comparison
GeForce GT 525M
Radeon HD 8730 OEM
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
N12P-GE
Cape Verde
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2011
September 2013
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
600 MHz
800 MHz
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
230.4 gflops
614.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
1,500 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
384
Power consumption (TDP)
23 Watt
47 Watt
Texture fill rate
9.6 billion/sec
19.20
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
4500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
28.8 GB/s
72 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 API
12 (11_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131
Optimus
+
-