GeForce GT 730 GDDR5 vs Radeon R9 280X
Summary
GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
100%
Radeon R9 280X
702%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider GeForce GT 730 GDDR5 |
| 212 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 280X . |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 R9 280X |
| Around 602% 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| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon R9 280X
The Radeon R9 280X is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GT 730 GDDR5 | | Radeon R9 280X | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GK208 () | vs | Tahiti (Tahiti XTL) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 87 mm² | vs | 352 mm² |
| Transistors | unknown | vs | 4,313 million |
| Shaders | 384 | vs | 2048 |
| Compute Units | 2 | vs | 32 |
| Core clock | 902 MHz | vs | 850 MHz |
| ROPs | 8 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 16 | vs | 128 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GT 730 GDDR5 | | Radeon R9 280X | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 64 bit | vs | 384 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective | vs | 1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 3072 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GT 730 GDDR5 | | Radeon R9 280X | |
|---|
| TDP | 38 watts | vs | 250 watts |
| Release Date | 18 Jun 2014 | vs | 8 Oct 2013 |
GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
7.22 GP/s
Radeon R9 280X
27.20 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
14.43 GT/s
Radeon R9 280X
109.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
40.10 GB/s
Radeon R9 280X
288.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
692.70 GFLOPs
Radeon R9 280X
3482.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
1560
Radeon R9 280X
10960
Points (higher is better)