GeForce GT 730 GDDR5 vs GeForce GTX 960

GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2014
GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
GeForce GTX 960
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Jan 2015
GeForce GTX 960

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 960
    665%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 730 GDDR5

82 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 960 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 960

Around 565% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 960

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 960

The GeForce GTX 960 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 730 GDDR5GeForce GTX 960
GPU NameGK208 ()vsGM206 (GM206-300-A1)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size87 mm²vs228 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs2,940 million
Shaders384vs1024
Compute Units2vs8
Core clock902 MHzvs1127 MHz
ROPs8vs32
TMUs16vs64

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 730 GDDR5GeForce GTX 960
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
vs1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 730 GDDR5GeForce GTX 960
TDP38 wattsvs120 watts
Release Date18 Jun 2014vs22 Jan 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    7.22 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 960
    36.10 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    14.43 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 960
    72.10 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    40.10 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 960
    112.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    692.70 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 960
    2308.10 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    1560
  • GeForce GTX 960
    10380

Points (higher is better)