GeForce GT 730 OEM vs Radeon R9 280X

GeForce GT 730 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 9 Apr 2015
GeForce GT 730 OEM
Radeon R9 280X
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Oct 2013
Radeon R9 280X
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Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GT 730 OEM
    100%
  • Radeon R9 280X
    702%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 730 OEM

186 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 280X .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R9 280X

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 280X

The Radeon R9 280X is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 730 OEMRadeon R9 280X
GPU NameGK107 ()vsTahiti (Tahiti XTL)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size118 mm²vs352 mm²
Transistors1,270 millionvs4,313 million
Shaders384vs2048
Compute Units2vs32
Core clock993 MHzvs850 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs32vs128

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 730 OEMRadeon R9 280X
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 730 OEMRadeon R9 280X
TDP64 wattsvs250 watts
Release Date9 Apr 2015vs8 Oct 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 730 OEM
    7.94 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 280X
    27.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 730 OEM
    31.80 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 280X
    109.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 730 OEM
    80.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 280X
    288.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 730 OEM
    762.60 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 280X
    3482.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GT 730 OEM
    1560
  • Radeon R9 280X
    10960

Points (higher is better)