Radeon HD 8670M vs GeForce GT 730

Radeon HD 8670M
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 1 Mar 2013
Radeon HD 8670M
GeForce GT 730
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2014
GeForce GT 730

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8670M

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 730

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 8670M

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 8670M

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 8670MGeForce GT 730
GPU NameSun (Sun XT)vsGF108 (GF108-400-A1)
Fab Process28 nmvs40 nm
Die Size77 mm²vs116 mm²
Transistors1,040 millionvs585 million
Shaders320vs96
Compute Units5vs2
Core clock925 MHzvs700 MHz
ROPs8vs4
TMUs20vs16

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 8670MGeForce GT 730
Memory TypeDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
2000 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 8670MGeForce GT 730
TDP0 wattsvs49 watts
Release Date1 Mar 2013vs18 Jun 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 8670M
    7.80 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 730
    2.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 8670M
    19.50 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 730
    11.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 8670M
    16.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 730
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 8670M
    624.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 730
    268.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better