AMD Radeon HD 6730M videocard review

Radeon HD 6730M videocard released by AMD; release date: 4 January 2011. The videocard is designed for laptop-computers and based on TeraScale 2 microarchitecture codenamed Whistler.

Core clock speed - 725 MHz. Texture fill rate - 17.4 GTexel / s. Pipelines - 480. Floating-point performance - 696.0 gflops. Manufacturing process technology - 40 nm. Transistors count - 716 million. Power consumption (TDP) - 35 Watt.

Memory type: DDR3. Maximum RAM amount - 1 GB. Memory bus width - 128 Bit. Memory clock speed - 1600 MHz. Memory bandwidth - 25.6 GB / s. Shared memory - 0.

Games performance

StarCraft 2 (2010)

Low, 1024x768	228.40
Medium, 1360x768	46.40
High, 1360x768	28.60
Ultra, 1920x1080	18.20

Metro 2033 (2010)

Low, 800x600	66.00
Medium, 1360x768	31.70
High, 1600x900	17.00
Ultra, 1920x1080	5.70

Specifications (specs)

Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2
Code name	Whistler
Launch date	4 January 2011
Place in performance rating	not rated
Type	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	725 MHz
Floating-point performance	696.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm
Pipelines	480
Texture fill rate	17.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt
Transistor count	716 million

Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)
Laptop size	medium sized
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz
Memory type	DDR3
Shared memory	0