GeForce GT 730 GDDR5 vs Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition

GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2014
GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Feb 2012
Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    100%
  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    267%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 730 GDDR5

42 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition

Around 167% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition

The Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 730 GDDR5Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
GPU NameGK208 ()vsCape Verde (Cape Verde XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size87 mm²vs123 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs1,500 million
Shaders384vs640
Compute Units2vs10
Core clock902 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs8vs16
TMUs16vs40

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 730 GDDR5Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
vs1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 730 GDDR5Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
TDP38 wattsvs80 watts
Release Date18 Jun 2014vs15 Feb 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    7.22 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    16.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    14.43 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    40.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    40.10 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    72.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    692.70 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    1280.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    1560
  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    4170

Points (higher is better)