GeForce GTX 260 vs GeForce GT 730

GeForce GTX 260
Memory: 896Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 16 Jun 2008
GeForce GTX 260
GeForce GT 730
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2014
GeForce GT 730

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 260

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

133 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 260 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 260

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 260

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 260GeForce GT 730
GPU NameGT200 (G200-100-A2)vsGF108 (GF108-400-A1)
Fab Process65 nmvs40 nm
Die Size576 mm²vs116 mm²
Transistors1,400 millionvs585 million
Shaders192vs96
Compute Units8vs2
Core clock576 MHzvs700 MHz
ROPs28vs4
TMUs64vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 260GeForce GT 730
Memory TypeGDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width448 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed999 MHz
1998 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size896 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 260GeForce GT 730
TDP182 wattsvs49 watts
Release Date16 Jun 2008vs18 Jun 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 260
    16.10 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 730
    2.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 260
    36.90 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 730
    11.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 260
    112.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 730
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 260
    476.90 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 730
    268.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better