UHD Graphics 730 vs Radeon R5 A230

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated687
Place by popularitynot in top-10082
Power efficiencyno data19.01
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Generation 12.2 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameJetRaptor Lake GT1
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date7 January 2014 (10 years ago)3 January 2023 (1 year 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 cores320192
Core clock speed780 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed855 MHz1550 MHz
Number of transistors690 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data15 Watt
Texture fill rate17.1018.60
Floating-point processing power0.5472 TFLOPS0.5952 TFLOPS
ROPs86
TMUs2012

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8Ring Bus
Widthno dataIGP

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 typeDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount4 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1000 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth16 GB/sno 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 outputsMotherboard Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.16.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2014 3 January 2023
Chip lithography 28 nm 10 nm

UHD Graphics 730 has an age advantage of 8 years, and a 180% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 A230 and UHD Graphics 730. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R5 A230 is a notebook card while UHD Graphics 730 is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon R5 A230
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