GeForce GT 730 vs GeForce GTX 970

GeForce GT 730
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2014
GeForce GT 730
GeForce GTX 970
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 19 Sep 2014
GeForce GTX 970

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 730

99 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 970 .
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 970

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 970

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 970

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 730GeForce GTX 970
GPU NameGF108 (GF108-400-A1)vsGM204 (GM204-200-A1)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size116 mm²vs398 mm²
Transistors585 millionvs5,200 million
Shaders96vs1664
Compute Units2vs13
Core clock700 MHzvs1050 MHz
ROPs4vs56
TMUs16vs104

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 730GeForce GTX 970
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 730GeForce GTX 970
TDP49 wattsvs148 watts
Release Date18 Jun 2014vs19 Sep 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 730
    2.80 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 970
    58.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 730
    11.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 970
    109.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 730
    28.80 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 970
    224.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 730
    268.80 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 970
    3494.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better