RTX A1000 vs Radeon HD 8730A

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated248
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data39.57
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2012−2020)Ampere (2020−2025)
GPU code nameMarsGA107
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date1 April 2013 (12 years ago)16 April 2024 (1 year 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 cores3842304
Core clock speed650 MHz727 MHz
Boost clock speed700 MHz1462 MHz
Number of transistors950 million8,700 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data50 Watt
Texture fill rate16.80105.3
Floating-point processing power0.5376 TFLOPS6.737 TFLOPS
ROPs832
TMUs2472
Tensor Coresno data72
Ray Tracing Coresno data18
L1 Cache96 KB2.3 MB
L2 Cache256 KB2 MB

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8PCIe 4.0 x8
Lengthno data163 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount1 GB8 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth32 GB/s192.0 GB/s
Resizable BAR-+

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 outputs4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

API and SDK support

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA-8.6
DLSS-+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 April 2013 16 April 2024
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 8 nm

RTX A1000 has an age advantage of 11 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 250% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8730A and RTX A1000. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 8730A is a notebook graphics card while RTX A1000 is a workstation one.

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