GeForce GT 730 GDDR5 vs Radeon R9 290X
Summary
GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
100%
Radeon R9 290X
1039%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider GeForce GT 730 GDDR5 |
| 252 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 290X . |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 290X |
| Around 939% higher average synthetic performance. |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Supports FreeSync |
| Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports TrueAudio |
| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon R9 290X
The Radeon R9 290X is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GT 730 GDDR5 | | Radeon R9 290X | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GK208 () | vs | Hawaii (Hawaii XT) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 87 mm² | vs | 438 mm² |
| Transistors | unknown | vs | 6,200 million |
| Shaders | 384 | vs | 2816 |
| Compute Units | 2 | vs | 44 |
| Core clock | 902 MHz | vs | 1000 MHz |
| ROPs | 8 | vs | 64 |
| TMUs | 16 | vs | 176 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GT 730 GDDR5 | | Radeon R9 290X | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 64 bit | vs | 512 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective | vs | 1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 4096 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GT 730 GDDR5 | | Radeon R9 290X | |
|---|
| TDP | 38 watts | vs | 290 watts |
| Release Date | 18 Jun 2014 | vs | 24 Oct 2013 |
GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
7.22 GP/s
Radeon R9 290X
64.00 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
14.43 GT/s
Radeon R9 290X
176.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
40.10 GB/s
Radeon R9 290X
320.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
692.70 GFLOPs
Radeon R9 290X
5632.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
1560
Radeon R9 290X
16210
Points (higher is better)