Radeon HD 8730M and GeForce GT 420M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 8730M vs GeForce GT 420M
Radeon HD 8730M
786
GeForce GT 420M
417
Radeon HD 8730M
GeForce GT 420M
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Mars
N11P-GE
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
November 2012
September 2010
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 2.0 x16
Boost clock speed
700 MHz
-
Core clock speed
650 MHz
500 MHz
CUDA cores
-
96
Floating-point performance
537.6 gflops
192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
950 million
585 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
96
Power consumption (TDP)
-
23 Watt
Texture fill rate
16.80
6.0 billion/sec
Memory type
DDR3
(G)DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
2000 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
25.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 API
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.5
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A