AMD Cedar
VS
AMD Radeon HD 8730M
AMD Cedar
VS
AMD Radeon HD 8730M

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Cedar and AMD Radeon HD 8730M. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

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Place in performance rating
778
TeraScale 2
Architecture
GCN
Cedar
Code name
Mars
Desktop
Type
Laptop
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Release date
16 November 2012 (9 years ago)
$17.81
Price now
$338
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Value for money
0.09
Cedar
GPU code name
Mars
Desktop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Cedar and AMD Radeon HD 8730M based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

80
Pipelines
384
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Core clock speed
650 MHz
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Boost Clock
700 MHz
292 million
Transistor count
950 million
40 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
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Texture fill rate
16.80
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Floating-point performance
537.6 gflops
80
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
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Boost clock speed
700 MHz
292 million
Number of transistors
950 million

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Cedar and AMD Radeon HD 8730M.

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Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
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Laptop size
medium sized

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Cedar and AMD Radeon HD 8730M can be seen in this section.

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Memory type
DDR3
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Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
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Memory bus width
128 Bit
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Memory clock speed
2000 MHz
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Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
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Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Cedar and AMD Radeon HD 8730M, the size and number of monitors.

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Display Connectors
No outputs

API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Cedar and AMD Radeon HD 8730M. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Cedar and AMD Radeon HD 8730M graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Cedar or AMD Radeon HD 8730M good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Cedar
AMD Radeon HD 8730M
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Cedar
AMD Radeon HD 8730M
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Cedar
AMD Radeon HD 8730M
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Cedar
AMD Radeon HD 8730M
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Cedar
AMD Radeon HD 8730M
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Cedar

Cheaper ($17.81 vs $338)

Advantages of AMD Radeon HD 8730M

4.4% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (384 vs 80)

Finer manufacturing process technology (28 nm vs 40 nm)

So, AMD Cedar or AMD Radeon HD 8730M?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon HD 8730M .

AMD Cedar versus AMD Radeon HD 8730M performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score AMD Cedar
0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score AMD Radeon HD 8730M