GeForce GT 730 GDDR5 vs Radeon HD 7950 Boost

GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2014
GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
Radeon HD 7950 Boost
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Jun 2012
Radeon HD 7950 Boost

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    100%
  • Radeon HD 7950 Boost
    585%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 730 GDDR5

162 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 7950 Boost .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 7950 Boost

Around 485% 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 7950 Boost

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7950 Boost

The Radeon HD 7950 Boost is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 730 GDDR5Radeon HD 7950 Boost
GPU NameGK208 ()vsTahiti (Tahiti PRO2)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size87 mm²vs352 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs4,313 million
Shaders384vs1792
Compute Units2vs28
Core clock902 MHzvs850 MHz
ROPs8vs32
TMUs16vs112

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 730 GDDR5Radeon HD 7950 Boost
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
vs1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 730 GDDR5Radeon HD 7950 Boost
TDP38 wattsvs200 watts
Release Date18 Jun 2014vs22 Jun 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    7.22 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7950 Boost
    27.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    14.43 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7950 Boost
    95.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    40.10 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7950 Boost
    240.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    692.70 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7950 Boost
    3046.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    1560
  • Radeon HD 7950 Boost
    9130

Points (higher is better)