AMD Radeon HD 6730M vs AMD Radeon HD 6830M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6730M and AMD Radeon HD 6830M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies.

AMD Radeon HD 6730M

AMD Radeon HD 6830M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6730M

Around 26% higher core clock speed: 725 MHz vs 575 MHz
Around 11% lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 39 Watt

Core clock speed	725 MHz vs 575 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 39 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6830M

Around 32% higher texture fill rate: 23 GTexel / s vs 17.4 GTexel / s
Around 67% higher pipelines: 800 vs 480
Around 32% better floating-point performance: 920.0 gflops vs 696.0 gflops

Texture fill rate	23 GTexel / s vs 17.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines	800 vs 480
Floating-point performance	920.0 gflops vs 696.0 gflops

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6730M	AMD Radeon HD 6830M
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	TeraScale 2
Code name	Whistler	Granville
Launch date	4 January 2011	4 January 2011
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	725 MHz	575 MHz
Floating-point performance	696.0 gflops	920.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	480	800
Texture fill rate	17.4 GTexel / s	23 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt	39 Watt
Transistor count	716 million	1,040 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized	large
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.4	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB / s	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	DDR3, GDDR3
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
HDMI 1.3a