GeForce 9300 GS vs GeForce GT 730

GeForce 9300 GS
Memory: 512Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Jun 2008
GeForce 9300 GS
GeForce GT 730
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2014
GeForce GT 730

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 9300 GS

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GT 730

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 730

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 9300 GSGeForce GT 730
GPU NameG98 (G98-700-U2)vsGF108 (GF108-400-A1)
Fab Process65 nmvs40 nm
Die Size86 mm²vs116 mm²
Transistors210 millionvs585 million
Shaders8vs96
Compute Units1vs2
Core clock567 MHzvs700 MHz
ROPs4vs4
TMUs8vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce 9300 GSGeForce GT 730
Memory TypeDDR2vsDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed333 MHz
666 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 9300 GSGeForce GT 730
TDP0 wattsvs49 watts
Release Date1 Jun 2008vs18 Jun 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 9300 GS
    2.27 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 730
    2.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 9300 GS
    4.54 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 730
    11.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 9300 GS
    5.33 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 730
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 9300 GS
    22.40 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 730
    268.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better