AMD Radeon HD 8730M Benchmark and Specs

AMD Radeon HD 8730M

The Radeon HD 8730M is an AMD GPU. This GPU is bad at gaming with a score of 111 points in our PC benchmark.

The Radeon HD 8730M has 2 GiB of DDR3 memory, with a total memory bandwidth of 28 GB/s. The memory bus has a width of 128 bits. More memory is beneficial when gaming at high resolutions as the memory needs to store the frame buffer and all the game textures. If you run out of memory, you will experience poor performance as the GPU needs to swap data in and out of the memory as it is used.

In terms of clock speed, the Radeon HD 8730M GPU core runs at a frequency of 650 MHz and if power and temperature permits, it can boost up to 650 MHz. The core clock is directly related to the performance of a GPU, the higher the clock, the more processing can be done per second. A higher clock does not guarantee better performance by itself, this also depends on the number of shading units and other elements of the pipeline.

As for rendering API support, the Radeon HD 8730M supports up to DirectX 11.1. In addition, in cross-platform titles, OpenGL 4.4 features are supported. Higher level APIs such as DirectX 12 give more control to the game developer and can allow them to improve the graphics and performance.

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