GeForce GTS 450 vs GeForce GT 730

GeForce GTS 450
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Sep 2010
GeForce GTS 450
GeForce GT 730
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2014
GeForce GT 730

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTS 450

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 730

57 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTS 450 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTS 450

HWBench recommends GeForce GTS 450

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTS 450GeForce GT 730
GPU NameGF106 (GF106-250-KA-A1)vsGF108 (GF108-400-A1)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size238 mm²vs116 mm²
Transistors1,170 millionvs585 million
Shaders192vs96
Compute Units4vs2
Core clock783 MHzvs700 MHz
ROPs16vs4
TMUs32vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTS 450GeForce GT 730
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed902 MHz
3608 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTS 450GeForce GT 730
TDP106 wattsvs49 watts
Release Date13 Sep 2010vs18 Jun 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTS 450
    6.26 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 730
    2.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTS 450
    25.10 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 730
    11.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTS 450
    57.70 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 730
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTS 450
    601.30 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 730
    268.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better