GeForce GT 730 vs Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition

GeForce GT 730
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2014
GeForce GT 730
Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Feb 2012
Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 730

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 7770 GHz Edition

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 HD 7770 GHz Edition

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 730Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
GPU NameGF108 (GF108-400-A1)vsCape Verde (Cape Verde XT)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size116 mm²vs123 mm²
Transistors585 millionvs1,500 million
Shaders96vs640
Compute Units2vs10
Core clock700 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs4vs16
TMUs16vs40

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 730Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 730Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
TDP49 wattsvs80 watts
Release Date18 Jun 2014vs15 Feb 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 730
    2.80 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    16.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 730
    11.20 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    40.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 730
    28.80 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    72.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 730
    268.80 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    1280.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better