GeForce GT 630 vs GeForce GT 730 GDDR5

GeForce GT 630
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 15 May 2012
GeForce GT 630
GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2014
GeForce GT 730 GDDR5

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GT 630
    100%
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    139%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 630

Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 730 GDDR5

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 39% higher average synthetic performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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

The GeForce GT 730 GDDR5 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 630GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
GPU NameGF108 (GF108-400-A1)vsGK208 ()
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size116 mm²vs87 mm²
Transistors585 millionvsunknown
Shaders96vs384
Compute Units2vs2
Core clock810 MHzvs902 MHz
ROPs4vs8
TMUs16vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 630GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 630GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
TDP65 wattsvs38 watts
Release Date15 May 2012vs18 Jun 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 630
    3.24 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    7.22 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 630
    13.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    14.43 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 630
    28.80 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    40.10 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 630
    311.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    692.70 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GT 630
    1120
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    1560

Points (higher is better)