Radeon HD 8730A vs Quadro P3000 Mobile

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking322not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency15.38no data
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameGP104Mars
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date11 January 2017 (7 years ago)1 April 2013 (11 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1280384
Core clock speed1088 MHz650 MHz
Boost clock speed1215 MHz700 MHz
Number of transistors7,200 million950 million
Manufacturing process technology16 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Wattno data
Texture fill rate97.2016.80
Floating-point processing power3.11 TFLOPS0.5376 TFLOPS
ROPs488
TMUs8024

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)PCIe 3.0 x8

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5DDR3
Maximum RAM amount6 GB1 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1753 MHz1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth168 GB/s32 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs
Display Port1.4no data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Optimus+-
3D Stereo+no data
Mosaic+no data
nView Display Management+no data
Optimus+no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX1212 (11_1)
Shader Model6.45.1
OpenGL4.54.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131
CUDA6.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 January 2017 1 April 2013
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 1 GB
Chip lithography 16 nm 28 nm

P3000 Mobile has an age advantage of 3 years, a 500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 75% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro P3000 Mobile and Radeon HD 8730A. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro P3000 Mobile is a mobile workstation card while Radeon HD 8730A is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA Quadro P3000 Mobile
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AMD Radeon HD 8730A
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