GeForce 9600 GT vs GeForce GT 730 OEM

GeForce 9600 GT
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Feb 2008
GeForce 9600 GT
GeForce GT 730 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 9 Apr 2015
GeForce GT 730 OEM
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Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 9600 GT

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 OEM

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 730 OEM

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 9600 GTGeForce GT 730 OEM
GPU NameG94 (G94-300-A1)vsGK107 ()
Fab Process65 nmvs28 nm
Die Size240 mm²vs118 mm²
Transistors505 millionvs1,270 million
Shaders64vs384
Compute Units4vs2
Core clock650 MHzvs993 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs32vs32

Memory Configuration

GeForce 9600 GTGeForce GT 730 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 9600 GTGeForce GT 730 OEM
TDP95 wattsvs64 watts
Release Date21 Feb 2008vs9 Apr 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 9600 GT
    10.40 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 730 OEM
    7.94 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 9600 GT
    20.80 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 730 OEM
    31.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 9600 GT
    57.60 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 730 OEM
    80.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 9600 GT
    208.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 730 OEM
    762.60 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better