UHD Graphics 730 vs Radeon RX 550 640SP

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated687
Place by popularitynot in top-10083
Power efficiencyno data19.00
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Generation 12.2 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameBaffinRaptor Lake GT1
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date13 October 2017 (7 years ago)3 January 2023 (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 cores640192
Core clock speed1019 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed1071 MHz1550 MHz
Number of transistors3,000 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology14 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)60 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate42.8418.60
Floating-point processing power1.371 TFLOPS0.5952 TFLOPS
ROPs166
TMUs4012

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 x8Ring Bus
Length145 mmno data
Width2-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount2 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1500 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth96 GB/sno 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPortMotherboard Dependent
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.46.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 October 2017 3 January 2023
Chip lithography 14 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 60 Watt 15 Watt

UHD Graphics 730 has an age advantage of 5 years, a 40% more advanced lithography process, and 300% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 550 640SP and UHD Graphics 730. We've got no test results to judge.


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