GeForce GTX 1080 vs GeForce GT 730
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1080 |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Supports G-Sync |
| Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce GT 730 |
| 131 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 1080 . |
| Supports PhysX |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1080
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 1080 | | GeForce GT 730 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GP104 (GP104-400-A1) | vs | GF108 (GF108-400-A1) |
| Fab Process | 16 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 314 mm² | vs | 116 mm² |
| Transistors | 7,200 million | vs | 585 million |
| Shaders | 2560 | vs | 96 |
| Compute Units | 20 | vs | 2 |
| Core clock | 1607 MHz | vs | 700 MHz |
| ROPs | 64 | vs | 4 |
| TMUs | 160 | vs | 16 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 1080 | | GeForce GT 730 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5X | vs | DDR3 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1251 MHz
10008 MHz effective | vs | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 8192 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 1080 | | GeForce GT 730 | |
|---|
| TDP | 180 watts | vs | 49 watts |
| Release Date | 27 May 2016 | vs | 18 Jun 2014 |
GeForce GTX 1080
102.80 GP/s
GeForce GT 730
2.80 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 1080
257.10 GT/s
GeForce GT 730
11.20 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 1080
320.00 GB/s
GeForce GT 730
28.80 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 1080
8228.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GT 730
268.80 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better