GeForce GTX 560M vs Radeon HD 7730M

GeForce GTX 560M
Memory: 1536Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 30 May 2011
GeForce GTX 560M
Radeon HD 7730M
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 24 Apr 2012
Radeon HD 7730M

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 560M

Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7730M

50 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 560M .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 7730M

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7730M

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 560MRadeon HD 7730M
GPU NameGF116 (N12E-GS-A1)vsChelsea (Chelsea LE)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size238 mm²vs123 mm²
Transistors1,170 millionvs1,500 million
Shaders192vs512
Compute Units4vs8
Core clock775 MHzvs575 MHz
ROPs24vs16
TMUs32vs32

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 560MRadeon HD 7730M
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width192 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed625 MHz
2500 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1536 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 560MRadeon HD 7730M
TDP75 wattsvs25 watts
Release Date30 May 2011vs24 Apr 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 560M
    6.20 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7730M
    10.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 560M
    24.80 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7730M
    21.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 560M
    60.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7730M
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 560M
    595.20 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7730M
    691.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

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