GeForce 9600 GT vs GeForce GT 730 GDDR5

GeForce 9600 GT
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Feb 2008
GeForce 9600 GT
GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2014
GeForce GT 730 GDDR5

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 9600 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GDDR5

57 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce 9600 GT .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GT 730 GDDR5

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 730 GDDR5

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 9600 GTGeForce GT 730 GDDR5
GPU NameG94 (G94-300-A1)vsGK208 ()
Fab Process65 nmvs28 nm
Die Size240 mm²vs87 mm²
Transistors505 millionvsunknown
Shaders64vs384
Compute Units4vs2
Core clock650 MHzvs902 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs32vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce 9600 GTGeForce GT 730 GDDR5
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 9600 GTGeForce GT 730 GDDR5
TDP95 wattsvs38 watts
Release Date21 Feb 2008vs18 Jun 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 9600 GT
    10.40 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    7.22 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 9600 GT
    20.80 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    14.43 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 9600 GT
    57.60 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    40.10 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 9600 GT
    208.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    692.70 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better