Radeon HD 8730A vs HD Graphics 6000

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking854not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency10.19no data
ArchitectureGeneration 8.0 (2014−2015)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameBroadwell GT3Mars
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date5 September 2014 (10 years ago)1 April 2013 (11 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 cores384384
Core clock speed300 MHz650 MHz
Boost clock speed950 MHz700 MHz
Number of transistors189 million950 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Wattno data
Texture fill rate45.6016.80
Floating-point processing power0.7296 TFLOPS0.5376 TFLOPS
ROPs68
TMUs4824

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).

InterfaceRing BusPCIe 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 typeSystem SharedDDR3
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared1 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared128 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data32 GB/s
Shared memory+no data

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 ConnectorsPortable Device DependentNo outputs

Supported technologies

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

Quick Sync+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (11_1)
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL3.01.2
Vulkan+1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 September 2014 1 April 2013
Chip lithography 14 nm 28 nm

HD Graphics 6000 has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between HD Graphics 6000 and Radeon HD 8730A. We've got no test results to judge.


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