GeForce GT 730 and Radeon HD 8550M - video card comparison
GeForce GT 730
Radeon HD 8550M
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
GF108
Sun
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
June 2014
November 2012
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Boost clock speed
-
850 MHz
Core clock speed
700 MHz
700 MHz
Floating-point performance
268.8 gflops
544.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
690 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
384
Power consumption (TDP)
49 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
11.2 GT/s
17.00
Memory type
DDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1800 MHz
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
25.6 GB/s
14.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (11_1)
CUDA
2.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131