GeForce 9500 GT vs GeForce GT 730

GeForce 9500 GT
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Jul 2008
GeForce 9500 GT
GeForce GT 730
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2014
GeForce GT 730

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 9500 GT

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 730

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GT 730

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 730

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 9500 GTGeForce GT 730
GPU NameG96C ()vsGF108 (GF108-400-A1)
Fab Process55 nmvs40 nm
Die Size121 mm²vs116 mm²
Transistors314 millionvs585 million
Shaders32vs96
Compute Units2vs2
Core clock550 MHzvs700 MHz
ROPs8vs4
TMUs16vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce 9500 GTGeForce GT 730
Memory TypeGDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 9500 GTGeForce GT 730
TDP50 wattsvs49 watts
Release Date29 Jul 2008vs18 Jun 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 9500 GT
    4.40 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 730
    2.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 9500 GT
    8.80 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 730
    11.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 9500 GT
    25.60 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 730
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 9500 GT
    89.60 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 730
    268.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better