Radeon HD 8730M vs GeForce GT 730M

Place in performance ranking	825	850
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.05	0.14
Architecture	Kepler (2012−2018)	GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name	GK107	Mars
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	1 January 2013 (11 years ago)	16 November 2012 (11 years ago)
Current price	$1000	$338

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

HD 8730M has 180% better value for money than GT 730M.

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	384	384
Core clock speed	725 MHz	650 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	700 MHz
Number of transistors	1,270 million	950 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	33 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	23.20	16.80
Floating-point performance	552.2 gflops	537.6 gflops

Form factor & compatibility

Information on GeForce GT 730M and Radeon HD 8730M compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size	medium sized	medium sized
Bus support	PCI Express 3.0, PCI Express 2.0	no data
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x8

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	DDR3	DDR3
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	2 GB
Standard memory configuration	DDR3/GDDR5	no data
Memory bus width	64/128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 - 2000 MHz	2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB/s	32 GB/s
Shared memory	-	-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
eDP 1.2 signal support	Up to 3840x2160	no data
LVDS signal support	Up to 1920x1200	no data
VGA аnalog display support	Up to 2048x1536	no data
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support	Up to 3840x2160	no data
HDMI	+	no data
HDCP content protection	+	no data
7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI	+	no data
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming	+	no data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Blu-Ray 3D Support	+	no data
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder	+	no data
Optimus	+	no data
3D Vision / 3DTV Play	+	no data

API compatibility

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 API	12 (11_1)
Shader Model	5.1	5.1
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
OpenCL	1.1	1.2
Vulkan	1.1.126	1.2.131
CUDA	+	no data

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

GT 730M 2.10
+6.1%

HD 8730M 1.98

GeForce GT 730M outperforms Radeon HD 8730M by 6% based on our aggregated benchmark results.

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

GT 730M 814
+6%

HD 8730M 768

GeForce GT 730M outperforms Radeon HD 8730M by 6% in Passmark.

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

GT 730M 6788
+7.6%

HD 8730M 6311

GeForce GT 730M outperforms Radeon HD 8730M by 8% in 3DMark Vantage Performance.

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

GT 730M 1722
+25.6%

HD 8730M 1371

GeForce GT 730M outperforms Radeon HD 8730M by 26% in 3DMark 11 Performance GPU.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

GT 730M 1061

HD 8730M 1150
+8.4%

Radeon HD 8730M outperforms GeForce GT 730M by 8% in 3DMark Fire Strike Graphics.

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

GT 730M 7152

HD 8730M 8054
+12.6%

Radeon HD 8730M outperforms GeForce GT 730M by 13% in 3DMark Cloud Gate GPU.

Unigine Heaven 3.0

This is an old DirectX 11 benchmark using Unigine, a 3D game engine by eponymous Russian company. It displays a fantasy medieval town sprawling over several flying islands. Version 3.0 was released in 2012, and in 2013 it was superseded by Heaven 4.0, which introduced several slight improvements, including a newer version of Unigine.

Benchmark coverage: 4%

GT 730M 14

HD 8730M 16
+11.3%

Radeon HD 8730M outperforms GeForce GT 730M by 11% in Unigine Heaven 3.0.

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

900p	21−24 −4.8%	22 +4.8%
Full HD	22 +15.8%	19 −15.8%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

5−6
+25%

4−5

−25%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	2−3 +0%	2−3 +0%
Battlefield 5	3−4 +50%	2−3 −50%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	10−12 +0%	10−12 +0%
Cyberpunk 2077	5−6 +25%	4−5 −25%
Far Cry 5	2−3 +100%	1−2 −100%
Far Cry New Dawn	1−2 +0%	1−2 +0%
Forza Horizon 4	4−5 +33.3%	3−4 −33.3%
Hitman 3	3−4 +0%	3−4 +0%
Horizon Zero Dawn	3−4 +50%	2−3 −50%
Red Dead Redemption 2	5−6 +0%	5−6 +0%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	8−9 +0%	8−9 +0%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	2−3 +0%	2−3 +0%
Battlefield 5	3−4 +50%	2−3 −50%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	10−12 +0%	10−12 +0%
Cyberpunk 2077	5−6 +25%	4−5 −25%
Far Cry 5	2−3 +100%	1−2 −100%
Far Cry New Dawn	1−2 +0%	1−2 +0%
Forza Horizon 4	4−5 +33.3%	3−4 −33.3%
Hitman 3	3−4 +0%	3−4 +0%
Horizon Zero Dawn	3−4 +50%	2−3 −50%
Metro Exodus	3−4 +0%	3−4 +0%
Red Dead Redemption 2	5−6 +0%	5−6 +0%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	8−9 +0%	8−9 +0%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	5−6 +0%	5−6 +0%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	2−3 +0%	2−3 +0%
Battlefield 5	3−4 +50%	2−3 −50%
Cyberpunk 2077	5−6 +25%	4−5 −25%
Far Cry 5	2−3 +100%	1−2 −100%
Far Cry New Dawn	1−2 +0%	1−2 +0%
Forza Horizon 4	4−5 +33.3%	3−4 −33.3%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	5−6 +0%	5−6 +0%

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	4−5 +0%	4−5 +0%
Hitman 3	5−6 +0%	5−6 +0%
Horizon Zero Dawn	9−10 +0%	9−10 +0%
Metro Exodus	0−1	0−1
Red Dead Redemption 2	1−2 +0%	1−2 +0%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	5−6 +0%	5−6 +0%