NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop vs AMD Radeon HD 8730M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 6 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 8730M 2 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

AMD Radeon HD 8730M

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4534 points

3984% significantly better overall score

111 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

112 FPS

109 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

3 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

57 FPS

55 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

1 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

78 FPS

76 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

2 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

44 FPS

43 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

0 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

92420 points

1382% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

6236 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

84300 points

1316% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

5952 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

900 MHz

38% slightly higher core clock speed

650 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1703 MHz

161% significantly higher boost clock speed

650 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

5.97 GiB

198% significantly more memory

2 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336 GB/s

1066% significantly higher memory bandwidth

28.8 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

68.4 Gigapixels/s

1121% significantly higher pixel rate

5.6 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

171 Gigatexels/s

917% significantly higher texture rate

16.8 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3840

900% significantly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

400% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

499% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

111th of 586

501st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon HD 8000M Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.1

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.4

GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop vs Radeon HD 8730M specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop beats the Radeon HD 8730M in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop has significantly more memory with 5.97 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop is faster than the Radeon HD 8730M.