AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 730M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile and NVIDIA GeForce GT 730M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, 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), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/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 Vega 6 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce GT 730M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 10 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
2.2x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 33 Watt
Around 91% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 333 vs 174
Around 61% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1308 vs 812
2.4x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 7172 vs 2975

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 February 2018 vs 6 March 2014
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 33 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	333 vs 174
PassMark - G3D Mark	1308 vs 812
Geekbench - OpenCL	7172 vs 2975

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 730M

2.4x more core clock speed: 719 MHz vs 300 MHz

Core clock speed	719 MHz vs 300 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 730M

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

333

174

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1308

812

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

7172

2975

Name	AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce GT 730M
PassMark - G2D Mark	333	174
PassMark - G3D Mark	1308	812
Geekbench - OpenCL	7172	2975
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	143
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		7.814
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		162.583
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		0.798
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		11.854
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		30.631
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		1654
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		2370
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		1654
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		2370
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3358

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce GT 730M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 5.0	Kepler 2.0
Code name	Raven	GK208
Launch date	1 February 2018	6 March 2014
Place in performance rating	873	1320
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1011 MHz
Core clock speed	300 MHz	719 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	33 Watt
Transistor count	4,940 million	1,270 million
Floating-point performance		552.2 gflops
Pipelines		384
Texture fill rate		11.5 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support		Up to 3840x2160
eDP 1.2 signal support		Up to 3840x2160
HDCP content protection
HDMI
LVDS signal support		Up to 1920x1200
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
VGA аnalog display support		Up to 2048x1536
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP	PCIe 2.0 x8
Bus support		PCI Express 3.0, PCI Express 2.0
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	12 API
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
OpenCL		1.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		2 GB
Memory bandwidth		14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width		64 / 128 Bit
Memory clock speed		1800 MHz
Memory type		DDR3
Shared memory		0
Standard memory configuration		DDR3 / GDDR5
Technologies
3D Vision
3D Vision / 3DTV Play
Blu-Ray 3D Support
CUDA
Direct Compute
FXAA
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
TXAA