GeForce GT 730 GDDR5 vs GeForce GT 720

GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2014
GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
GeForce GT 720
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Sep 2014
GeForce GT 720

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    127%
  • GeForce GT 720
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 730 GDDR5

Around 27% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 720

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 730 GDDR5GeForce GT 720
GPU NameGK208 ()vsGK208 ()
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size87 mm²vs87 mm²
Transistorsunknownvsunknown
Shaders384vs192
Compute Units2vs1
Core clock902 MHzvs797 MHz
ROPs8vs8
TMUs16vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 730 GDDR5GeForce GT 720
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
vs800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 730 GDDR5GeForce GT 720
TDP38 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date18 Jun 2014vs29 Sep 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    7.22 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 720
    3.19 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    14.43 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 720
    12.75 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    40.10 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 720
    12.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    692.70 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 720
    306.05 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    1560
  • GeForce GT 720
    1220

Points (higher is better)