Radeon HD 6830M vs ATI Mobility HD 5730

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking986not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.94no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameMadisonGranville
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date7 January 2010 (14 years ago)4 January 2011 (13 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 cores400800
Core clock speed650 MHz575 MHz
Number of transistors627 million1,040 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)26 Watt39 Watt
Texture fill rate13.0023.00
Floating-point processing power0.52 TFLOPS0.92 TFLOPS
ROPs816
TMUs2040

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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedlarge
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16

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 typeGDDR3DDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB1 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz800 MHz
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/s25.6 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.05.0
OpenGL4.44.4
OpenCL1.21.2
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2010 4 January 2011
Power consumption (TDP) 26 Watt 39 Watt

ATI Mobility HD 5730 has 50% lower power consumption.

HD 6830M, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 11 months.

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon HD 5730 and Radeon HD 6830M. We've got no test results to judge.


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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5730
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AMD Radeon HD 6830M
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