HD 8730 OEM vs RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000)

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General info

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

Place in performance ranking443not rated
Place by popularity39not in top-100
ArchitectureVega (2017−2021)GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code nameVegaCape Verde
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date7 January 2020 (4 years old)5 September 2013 (10 years old)

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores512384
Core clock speedno data800 MHz
Boost clock speed2100 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data1,500 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt47 Watt
Texture fill rateno data19.20
Floating-point performanceno data614.4 gflops

Size and compatibility

Information on Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) and Radeon HD 8730 OEM compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x16
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

Memory

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 dataGDDR5
Maximum RAM amountno data1 GB
Memory bus widthno data128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data4500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data72 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

Video outputs and ports

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 data1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMIno data+

API support

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

DirectX12_112 (11_1)
Shader Modelno data5.1
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkanno data1.2.131

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 7 January 2020 5 September 2013
Chip lithography 7 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 47 Watt

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) and Radeon HD 8730 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) is a notebook card while Radeon HD 8730 OEM is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000)
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