Intel HD 515 vs AMD Radeon HD 8730M

Compare Intel HD 515 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

74 points

111 points

49% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

2 FPS

3 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

1 FPS

0 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

2 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

0 FPS

Identical

0 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3332 points

6236 points

87% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

2836 points

5952 points

109% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

650 MHz

116% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

800 MHz

23% slightly higher boost clock speed

650 MHz

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

2.4 Gigapixels/s

5.6 Gigapixels/s

133% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

19.2 Gigatexels/s

14% slightly higher texture rate

16.8 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

192

384

100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

Identical

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

166% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

520th of 586

497th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon HD 8000M Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.1

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.4

HD 515 vs Radeon HD 8730M benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon HD 8730M graphics card is better than the HD 515 in our tests.

The Radeon HD 8730M has a significantly 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. Despite this, the HD 515 has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon HD 8730M over the HD 515.