AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 vs AMD Radeon HD 8730M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 and AMD Radeon HD 8730M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon RX Vega 7

AMD Radeon HD 8730M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 7

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 9 month(s) later
2.5x more boost clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 650 MHz
Around 17% higher pipelines: 448 vs 384
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
Around 80% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 11203 vs 6236

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 Jan 2020 vs 1 April 2013
Boost clock speed	1600 MHz vs 650 MHz
Pipelines	448 vs 384
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 28 nm
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	11203 vs 6236

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 7
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8730M

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

11203

6236

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 7	AMD Radeon HD 8730M
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1081
Geekbench - OpenCL	11203	6236
PassMark - G3D Mark		768
PassMark - G2D Mark		180
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		6.51
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		289.464
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		1.306
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		18.747
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		1637
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		2037
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		1806
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		1637
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		2037
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		1806

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX Vega 7	AMD Radeon HD 8730M
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	GCN 1.0
Code name	Vega Raven Ridge	Mars
Launch date	7 Jan 2020	1 April 2013
Place in performance rating	1466	1317
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon HD 8000M Series
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1600 MHz	650 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	448	384
Compute units		6
Core clock speed		650 MHz
Floating-point performance		537.6 gflops
Texture fill rate		16.8 GTexel / s
Transistor count		1,040 million
API support
DirectX	12.1	11
OpenGL		4.4
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x8
Laptop size		medium sized
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		2 GB
Memory bandwidth		32 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		2000 MHz
Memory type		DDR3
Shared memory		0