Radeon HD 5730 vs Radeon HD 8730 OEM

Radeon HD 5730
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 26 Feb 2011
Radeon HD 5730
Radeon HD 8730 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Sep 2013
Radeon HD 8730 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5730

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8730 OEM

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5730Radeon HD 8730 OEM
GPU NameRedwood (Redwood XT)vsCape Verde (Cape Verde LE)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size104 mm²vs123 mm²
Transistors627 millionvs1,500 million
Shaders400vs384
Compute Units5vs6
Core clock775 MHzvs800 MHz
ROPs8vs8
TMUs20vs24

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5730Radeon HD 8730 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
vs1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5730Radeon HD 8730 OEM
TDP64 wattsvs47 watts
Release Date26 Feb 2011vs5 Sep 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5730
    6.20 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 8730 OEM
    6.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5730
    15.50 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 8730 OEM
    19.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5730
    64.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 8730 OEM
    72.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5730
    620.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 8730 OEM
    614.40 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better