GeForce GTX 470 vs GeForce GT 730

GeForce GTX 470
Memory: 1280Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 26 Mar 2010
GeForce GTX 470
GeForce GT 730
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2014
GeForce GT 730

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 470

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

166 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 470 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GTX 470

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 470

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 470GeForce GT 730
GPU NameGF100 (GF100-275-A3)vsGF108 (GF108-400-A1)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size529 mm²vs116 mm²
Transistors3,100 millionvs585 million
Shaders448vs96
Compute Units14vs2
Core clock608 MHzvs700 MHz
ROPs40vs4
TMUs56vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 470GeForce GT 730
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width320 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed837 MHz
3348 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1280 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 470GeForce GT 730
TDP215 wattsvs49 watts
Release Date26 Mar 2010vs18 Jun 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 470
    17.00 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 730
    2.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 470
    34.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 730
    11.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 470
    134.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 730
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 470
    1089.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 730
    268.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better