AMD Radeon HD 8730A vs AMD Radeon HD 8770M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8730A and AMD Radeon HD 8770M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

AMD Radeon HD 8730A

AMD Radeon HD 8770M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8770M

Around 19% higher core clock speed: 775 MHz vs 650 MHz
Around 11% higher boost clock speed: 775 MHz vs 700 MHz
Around 18% higher texture fill rate: 19.8 GTexel / s vs 16.8 GTexel / s
Around 18% better floating-point performance: 633.6 gflops vs 537.6 gflops
2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
2.3x more memory clock speed: 4500 MHz vs 2000 MHz

Core clock speed	775 MHz vs 650 MHz
Boost clock speed	775 MHz vs 700 MHz
Texture fill rate	19.8 GTexel / s vs 16.8 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance	633.6 gflops vs 537.6 gflops
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	4500 MHz vs 2000 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 8730A	AMD Radeon HD 8770M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	GCN 1.0
Code name	Mars	Mars
Launch date	1 April 2013	1 April 2013
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon HD 8000M Series
Technical info
Boost clock speed	700 MHz	775 MHz
Core clock speed	650 MHz	775 MHz
Floating-point performance	537.6 gflops	633.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	384	384
Texture fill rate	16.8 GTexel / s	19.8 GTexel / s
Transistor count	1,040 million	1,040 million
Compute units		6
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x8
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	11
OpenGL	4.5	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	32 GB / s	72 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz	4500 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR5
Shared memory		0