GeForce GT 730 vs Radeon R9 270

GeForce GT 730
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2014
GeForce GT 730
Radeon R9 270
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Nov 2013
Radeon R9 270

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 730

101 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 270 .
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 270

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R9 270

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 270

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 730Radeon R9 270
GPU NameGF108 (GF108-400-A1)vsCuracao (Curacao PRO)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size116 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors585 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders96vs1280
Compute Units2vs20
Core clock700 MHzvs900 MHz
ROPs4vs32
TMUs16vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 730Radeon R9 270
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 730Radeon R9 270
TDP49 wattsvs150 watts
Release Date18 Jun 2014vs13 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 730
    2.80 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 270
    28.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 730
    11.20 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 270
    72.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 730
    28.80 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 270
    179.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 730
    268.80 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 270
    2304.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better