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    GeForce GT 630M vs GeForce GT 730A

    GeForce GT 630M
    Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
    Release date: 22 Mar 2012
    GeForce GT 630M
    GeForce GT 730A
    Memory: 2048Mb DDR3MOBILE
    Release date: 1 Jul 2014
    GeForce GT 730A

    Summary

    Synthetic performance index

    • GeForce GT 630M
      100%
    • GeForce GT 730A
      170%

    Relative performance

    Reasons to consider GeForce GT 630M

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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

    Reasons to consider GeForce GT 730A

    This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
    Around 70% 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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 730A

    HWBench recommends GeForce GT 730A

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

    Specifications

    Core Configuration

    GeForce GT 630MGeForce GT 730A
    GPU NameGF117 (N13P-GL-A1)vsGK208 (GT 730M)
    Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
    Die Size116 mm²vs87 mm²
    Transistors585 millionvsunknown
    Shaders96vs384
    Compute Units2vs2
    Core clock800 MHzvs719 MHz
    ROPs4vs8
    TMUs16vs20

    Memory Configuration

    GeForce GT 630MGeForce GT 730A
    Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
    Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
    Memory Speed900 MHz
    3600 MHz effective    		vs900 MHz
    1800 MHz effective
    Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

    Additional details

    GeForce GT 630MGeForce GT 730A
    TDP33 wattsvs33 watts
    Release Date22 Mar 2012vs1 Jul 2014

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • GeForce GT 630M
      3.20 GP/s
    • GeForce GT 730A
      5.75 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • GeForce GT 630M
      12.80 GT/s
    • GeForce GT 730A
      14.38 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

    • GeForce GT 630M
      57.60 GB/s
    • GeForce GT 730A
      28.80 GB/s

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • GeForce GT 630M
      307.20 GFLOPs
    • GeForce GT 730A
      552.20 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

    Synthetic benchmarks

    3DMark 11

    • GeForce GT 630M
      1060
    • GeForce GT 730A
      1810

    Points (higher is better)

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