Radeon HD 8730 OEM vs HD 8310G

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale 3 (2010−2013)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameScrapper LiteCape Verde
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release dateJuly 2013 (11 years ago)5 September 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 cores128384
Core clock speed554 MHz800 MHz
Boost clock speed720 MHzno data
Number of transistors1,303 million1,500 million
Manufacturing process technology32 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)20 Watt47 Watt
Texture fill rate5.76019.20
Floating-point processing power0.1843 TFLOPS0.6144 TFLOPS
ROPs48
TMUs824

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).

InterfaceIGPPCIe 3.0 x16
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeSystem SharedGDDR5
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared1 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared128 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1125 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data72 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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (11_1)
Shader Model5.05.1
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.21.2
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 32 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 20 Watt 47 Watt

HD 8310G has 135% lower power consumption.

HD 8730 OEM, on the other hand, has a 14.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8310G and Radeon HD 8730 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 8310G is a notebook card while Radeon HD 8730 OEM is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon HD 8310G
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