Radeon HD 8750M vs ATI HD 4730

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated817
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameRV770Mars
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date8 June 2009 (15 years ago)26 February 2013 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$79 no data

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 cores640384
Core clock speed750 MHz670 MHz
Boost clock speedno data775 MHz
Number of transistors956 million950 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)110 Wattno data
Texture fill rate24.0016.08
Floating-point processing power0.96 TFLOPS0.5146 TFLOPS
ROPs88
TMUs3224

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 sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x8
Length241 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno data

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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount512 MB1 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth57.6 GB/s64 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-VideoPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)12 (11_1)
Shader Model4.16.5 (5.1)
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.12.1 (1.2)
VulkanN/A1.2.170

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 June 2009 26 February 2013
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 1 GB
Chip lithography 55 nm 28 nm

HD 8750M has an age advantage of 3 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 96.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 4730 and Radeon HD 8750M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 4730 is a desktop card while Radeon HD 8750M is a notebook one.


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