Radeon HD 8730A vs HD 8650M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking957not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN (2012−2015)GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code nameno dataMars
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date7 January 2013 (13 years ago)1 April 2013 (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 cores384384
Core clock speed650 MHz650 MHz
Boost clock speedno data700 MHz
Number of transistors900 Million950 million
Manufacturing process technology28 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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
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 typeGDDR5DDR3
Maximum RAM amount2 GB1 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed4500 MHz1000 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.

DirectX11.112 (11_1)
Shader Modelno data5.1
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2013 1 April 2013
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1 GB

HD 8650M has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

HD 8730A, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 months.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8650M and Radeon HD 8730A. We've got no test results to judge.

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