Radeon HD 6730M and HD Graphics 520 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6730M
HD Graphics 520
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Gen. 9 Skylake (2015−2016)
GPU code name
Whistler-XT
Skylake GT2
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
January 2011
September 2015
Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x1
Boost clock speed
-
1050 MHz
Core clock speed
725 MHz
300 MHz
Floating-point performance
696.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
716 million
189 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
480
24
Power consumption (TDP)
35 Watt
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
17.40
25.20
Memory type
DDR3
DDR3L/LPDDR3/DDR4
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
32 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
25.6 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
+
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.4
Vulkan
N/A
+
Quick Sync
-
+