GeForce GT 730 GDDR5 vs Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2014
GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Nov 2013
Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    100%
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    117%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 730 GDDR5

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

Around 17% 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

HWBench recommends Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

The Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand) is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 730 GDDR5Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
GPU NameGK208 ()vsOland ()
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size87 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs1,040 million
Shaders384vs320
Compute Units2vs5
Core clock902 MHzvs730 MHz
ROPs8vs8
TMUs16vs20

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 730 GDDR5Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 730 GDDR5Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
TDP38 wattsvs50 watts
Release Date18 Jun 2014vs1 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    7.22 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    5.84 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    14.43 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    14.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    40.10 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    692.70 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    467.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    1560
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    1830

Points (higher is better)