GeForce GT 430 vs GeForce GT 730 GDDR5

GeForce GT 430
Memory: 512Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 11 Oct 2010
GeForce GT 430
GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2014
GeForce GT 730 GDDR5

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GT 430
    100%
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    154%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 430

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 730 GDDR5

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 54% higher average synthetic performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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

The GeForce GT 730 GDDR5 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 430GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
GPU NameGF108 (GF108-300-A1)vsGK208 ()
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size116 mm²vs87 mm²
Transistors585 millionvsunknown
Shaders96vs384
Compute Units2vs2
Core clock700 MHzvs902 MHz
ROPs4vs8
TMUs16vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 430GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
vs1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 430GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
TDP49 wattsvs38 watts
Release Date11 Oct 2010vs18 Jun 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 430
    2.80 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    7.22 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 430
    11.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    14.43 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 430
    12.80 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    40.10 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 430
    268.80 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    692.70 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GT 430
    1010
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    1560

Points (higher is better)