
Radeon HD 6730M and GeForce 9700M GTS - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6730M
GeForce 9700M GTS
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
G9x (2007−2010)
GPU code name
Whistler-XT
NB9E-GS
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
January 2011
July 2008
Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
PCIe 2.0 x16
Core clock speed
725 MHz
530 MHz
CUDA cores
-
48
Floating-point performance
696.0 gflops
127.2 gflops
Gigaflops
-
180
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
716 million
505 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
480
48
Power consumption (TDP)
35 Watt
60 Watt
Texture fill rate
17.40
12.72
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
25.6 GB/s
51.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
3.3
Shader Model
5.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A