Radeon HD 8730 OEM vs RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 2000/3000)

Primary details

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

Place in performance ranking768not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureVega (2017−2020)GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code nameVega Raven RidgeCape Verde
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date7 January 2018 (6 years ago)5 September 2013 (11 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores384384
Core clock speedno data800 MHz
Boost clock speed1100 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data1,500 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt47 Watt
Texture fill rateno data19.20
Floating-point performanceno data0.6144 gflops

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 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 typeno dataGDDR5
Maximum RAM amountno data1 GB
Memory bus widthno data128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data4500 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 data1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_112 (11_1)
Shader Modelno data5.1
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2018 5 September 2013
Chip lithography 14 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 47 Watt

RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 2000/3000) has an age advantage of 4 years, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 213.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 2000/3000) and Radeon HD 8730 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 2000/3000) is a notebook card while Radeon HD 8730 OEM is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 2000/3000)
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