GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs GeForce GT 730 GDDR5

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Oct 2019
GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2014
GeForce GT 730 GDDR5

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GDDR5

87 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER .
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPERGeForce GT 730 GDDR5
GPU NameTU116 (TU116-300-A1)vsGK208 ()
Fab Process12 nmvs28 nm
Die Size284 mm²vs87 mm²
Transistors6,600 millionvsunknown
Shaders1408vs384
Compute Units22vs2
Core clock1530 MHzvs902 MHz
ROPs48vs8
TMUs88vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPERGeForce GT 730 GDDR5
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
14000 MHz effective
vs1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
Memory Size6144 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPERGeForce GT 730 GDDR5
TDP125 wattsvs38 watts
Release Date29 Oct 2019vs18 Jun 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
    85.68 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    7.22 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
    157.10 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    14.43 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
    336.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    40.10 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
    5020.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    692.70 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better