Radeon HD 8870M and Radeon HD 8730M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 8870M vs Radeon HD 8730M
Radeon HD 8870M
1687
Radeon HD 8730M
786
Radeon HD 8870M
Radeon HD 8730M
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
Venus
Mars
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
December 2012
November 2012
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Boost clock speed
775 MHz
700 MHz
Core clock speed
725 MHz
650 MHz
Floating-point performance
992.0 gflops
537.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,500 million
950 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
384
Texture fill rate
31.00
16.80
Memory type
GDDR5, DDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
4500 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
72 GB/s
32 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (11_1)
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131