GeForce GT 730 vs Radeon HD 6790

GeForce GT 730
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2014
GeForce GT 730
Radeon HD 6790
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 4 Apr 2011
Radeon HD 6790

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 730

101 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 6790 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6790

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 6790

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6790

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 730Radeon HD 6790
GPU NameGF108 (GF108-400-A1)vsBarts (Barts LE)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size116 mm²vs255 mm²
Transistors585 millionvs1,700 million
Shaders96vs800
Compute Units2vs10
Core clock700 MHzvs840 MHz
ROPs4vs16
TMUs16vs40

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 730Radeon HD 6790
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1050 MHz
4200 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 730Radeon HD 6790
TDP49 wattsvs150 watts
Release Date18 Jun 2014vs4 Apr 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 730
    2.80 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6790
    13.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 730
    11.20 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6790
    33.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 730
    28.80 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6790
    134.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 730
    268.80 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6790
    1344.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better