GeForce GT 220 vs GeForce GT 730 GDDR5

GeForce GT 220
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 26 Jan 2010
GeForce GT 220
GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2014
GeForce GT 730 GDDR5

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 220

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GDDR5

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GDDR5

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 730 GDDR5

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 220GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
GPU NameG94 ()vsGK208 ()
Fab Process65 nmvs28 nm
Die Size240 mm²vs87 mm²
Transistors505 millionvsunknown
Shaders48vs384
Compute Units2vs2
Core clock600 MHzvs902 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs24vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 220GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed700 MHz
1400 MHz effective
vs1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 220GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
TDP58 wattsvs38 watts
Release Date26 Jan 2010vs18 Jun 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 220
    9.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    7.22 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 220
    14.40 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    14.43 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 220
    44.80 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    40.10 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 220
    144.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    692.70 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better