Radeon HD 8730A vs HD 7400G

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1243not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.89no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 3 (2010−2013)GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code nameScrapperMars
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date2 October 2012 (13 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 cores192384
Core clock speed327 MHz650 MHz
Boost clock speed424 MHz700 MHz
Number of transistors1,303 million950 million
Manufacturing process technology32 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)17 Wattno data
Texture fill rate5.08816.80
Floating-point processing power0.1628 TFLOPS0.5376 TFLOPS
ROPs48
TMUs1224
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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
InterfaceIGPPCIe 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

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 outputsNo outputs

API and SDK support

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (11_1)
Shader Model5.05.1
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.21.2
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 2 October 2012 1 April 2013
Chip lithography 32 nm 28 nm

HD 8730A has an age advantage of 5 months, and a 14.3% more advanced lithography process.

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