Radeon HD 6730M and GeForce 8800 GT - video card comparison

Radeon HD 6730M

GeForce 8800 GT

Architecture

Terascale 2 (2009−2015)

Tesla (2006−2010)

GPU code name

Whistler-XT

G92

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

January 2011

October 2007

Bus support

-

PCI-E 2.0

Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

-

6-pin & 8-pin

SLI options

-

2-way

Core clock speed

725 MHz

600 MHz

CUDA cores

-

112

Floating-point performance

696.0 gflops

336.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

65 nm

Number of transistors

716 million

754 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

480

112

Power consumption (TDP)

35 Watt

105 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

-

105 °C

Texture fill rate

17.40

33.6 billion/sec

Memory type

DDR3

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

512 MB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

800 MHz

900 MHz

Memory bandwidth

25.6 GB/s

57.6 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

No outputs

Dual Link DVIHDTV

Multi monitor support

-

+

Maximum VGA resolution

-

2048x1536

Audio input for HDMI

-

S/PDIF

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

11.1 (10_0)

CUDA

-

+

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

Shader Model

5.0

4.0

Vulkan

N/A

N/A

High Dynamic-Range Lighting (HDRR)

-

128bit