Radeon HD 7430M vs Radeon HD 8590M
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7430M |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8590M |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 8590M
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 7430M | | Radeon HD 8590M | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Seymour (Seymour PRO) | vs | Sun () |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 67 mm² | vs | 77 mm² |
| Transistors | 370 million | vs | 1,040 million |
| Shaders | 160 | vs | 320 |
| Compute Units | 2 | vs | 5 |
| Core clock | 600 MHz | vs | 750 MHz |
| ROPs | 4 | vs | 8 |
| TMUs | 8 | vs | 20 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 7430M | | Radeon HD 8590M | |
|---|
| Memory Type | DDR3 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 64 bit | vs | 64 bit |
| Memory Speed | 800 MHz
1600 MHz effective | vs | 1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 7430M | | Radeon HD 8590M | |
|---|
| TDP | 7 watts | vs | 0 watts |
| Release Date | 7 Jan 2012 | vs | 1 Mar 2013 |
Radeon HD 7430M
2.40 GP/s
Radeon HD 8590M
6.60 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 7430M
4.80 GT/s
Radeon HD 8590M
16.50 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 7430M
12.80 GB/s
Radeon HD 8590M
36.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 7430M
192.00 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 8590M
528.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better