Radeon HD 8730M and GeForce FX 5600 XT - video card comparison
Radeon HD 8730M
GeForce FX 5600 XT
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code name
Mars
NV31
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
November 2012
March 2003
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
700 MHz
-
Core clock speed
650 MHz
235 MHz
Floating-point performance
537.6 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
950 million
80 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
-
Texture fill rate
16.80
0.94
Memory type
DDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
128 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
2000 MHz
400 MHz
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
6.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
12 (11_1)
9.0a
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
1.5 (2.1)
Shader Model
5.1
-
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A