Radeon HD 8730M and GeForce 9800M GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 8730M vs GeForce 9800M GT
Radeon HD 8730M
786
GeForce 9800M GT
392
Radeon HD 8730M
GeForce 9800M GT
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
G9x (2007−2010)
GPU code name
Mars
NB9E-GT2
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
November 2012
July 2008
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
700 MHz
-
Core clock speed
650 MHz
500 MHz
CUDA cores
-
96
Floating-point performance
537.6 gflops
240 gflops
Gigaflops
-
360
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
950 million
754 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
96
Power consumption (TDP)
-
65 Watt
Texture fill rate
16.80
24.00
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
2000 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
51.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 (11_1)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
3.3
Shader Model
5.1
4.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A