GeForce FX 5600 XT vs Radeon HD 8730M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking877not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code nameMarsNV31
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 April 2013 (11 years ago)17 March 2003 (21 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 cores384no data
Core clock speed650 MHz235 MHz
Boost clock speed700 MHzno data
Number of transistors950 million80 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm130 nm
Texture fill rate16.800.94
Floating-point processing power0.5376 TFLOPSno data
ROPs84
TMUs244

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
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8AGP 8x
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 typeDDR3DDR
Maximum RAM amount1 GB128 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz200 MHz
Memory bandwidth32 GB/s6.4 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

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 outputs1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)9.0a
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.61.5 (2.1)
OpenCL1.2N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 April 2013 17 March 2003
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 128 MB
Chip lithography 28 nm 130 nm

HD 8730M has an age advantage of 10 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 364.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8730M and GeForce FX 5600 XT. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 8730M is a notebook card while GeForce FX 5600 XT is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon HD 8730M
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