AMD Radeon HD 8730 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce G205M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8730 OEM and NVIDIA GeForce G205M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

AMD Radeon HD 8730 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce G205M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8730 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 78% higher core clock speed: 800 MHz vs 450 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
4.6x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 4574 vs 989
4.6x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 4574 vs 989

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	5 September 2013 vs 8 January 2009
Core clock speed	800 MHz vs 450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	4574 vs 989
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	4574 vs 989

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce G205M

3.4x lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 47 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt vs 47 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8730 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce G205M

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

4574

989

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

4574

989

Name	AMD Radeon HD 8730 OEM	NVIDIA GeForce G205M
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1166
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1166
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2589
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2589
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	4574	989
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	4574	989
PassMark - G2D Mark		294
PassMark - G3D Mark		92

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 8730 OEM	NVIDIA GeForce G205M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Tesla
Code name	Cape Verde	MCP79MX
Launch date	5 September 2013	8 January 2009
Place in performance rating	1023	1025
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	800 MHz	450 MHz
Floating-point performance	614.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	384
Texture fill rate	19.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	47 Watt	14 Watt
Transistor count	1,500 million	210 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	72 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	4500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5