Radeon HD 8730A vs Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

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ArchitecturePowerVR SGX5 (2008−2011)GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code nameCedar TrailMars
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 November 2011 (14 years ago)1 April 2013 (12 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores4384
Core clock speedno data650 MHz
Boost clock speed400 MHz700 MHz
Number of transistorsno data950 million
Manufacturing process technology32 nm28 nm
Texture fill rateno data16.80
Floating-point processing powerno data0.5376 TFLOPS
ROPsno data8
TMUsno data24
L1 Cacheno data96 KB
L2 Cacheno data256 KB

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 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 typeno dataDDR3
Maximum RAM amountno data1 GB
Memory bus widthno data128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data32 GB/s
Shared memory+no data

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectorsno dataNo outputs

API and SDK support

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXno data12 (11_1)
Shader Modelno data5.1
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 November 2011 1 April 2013
Chip lithography 32 nm 28 nm

HD 8730A has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 14.3% more advanced lithography process.

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