AMD Radeon HD 8730A: specs and benchmarks
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Summary
AMD started Radeon HD 8730A sales 1 April 2013. This is a laptop graphics card based on a GCN 1.0 architecture and made with 28 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 1 GB of DDR3 memory clocked at 1 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 32 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via PCIe 3.0 x8 interface.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Radeon HD 8730A: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | GCN 1.0 (2012−2020) | |
| GPU code name | Mars | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 1 April 2013 (13 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Radeon HD 8730A's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon HD 8730A's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 384 | of 57344 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Core clock speed | 650 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Boost clock speed | 700 MHz | of 3130 MHz (Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB) |
| Number of transistors | 950 million | of 670,000 million (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | of 2 nm (Radeon Instinct MI455X) |
| Texture fill rate | 16.80 | of 4,062.5 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.5376 TFLOPS | of 260 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| ROPs | 8 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 24 | of 1792 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| L1 Cache | 96 KB | of 112 MB (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| L2 Cache | 256 KB | of 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon HD 8730A and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x8 |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon HD 8730A: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | DDR3 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 1 GB | of 432 GB (Radeon Instinct MI455X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 32768 Bit (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Memory clock speed | 1000 MHz | of 16000 GB/s (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 32 GB/s | of 3,277 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon HD 8730A. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | No outputs |
API and SDK support
APIs supported by Radeon HD 8730A, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (11_1) | |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | |
| Vulkan | 1.2.131 |
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon HD 8730A is GeForce GT 645M.
Similar GPUs
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Recommended processors
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