GeForce GTX 580 vs GeForce GT 730 GDDR5

GeForce GTX 580
Memory: 1536Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 9 Nov 2010
GeForce GTX 580
GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2014
GeForce GT 730 GDDR5

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 580
    423%
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 580

Around 323% higher average synthetic performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GDDR5

206 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 580 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 580

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 580

The GeForce GTX 580 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 580GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
GPU NameGF110 (GF110-375-A1)vsGK208 ()
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size520 mm²vs87 mm²
Transistors3,000 millionvsunknown
Shaders512vs384
Compute Units16vs2
Core clock772 MHzvs902 MHz
ROPs48vs8
TMUs64vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 580GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width384 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1002 MHz
4008 MHz effective
vs1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
Memory Size1536 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 580GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
TDP244 wattsvs38 watts
Release Date9 Nov 2010vs18 Jun 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 580
    24.70 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    7.22 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 580
    49.40 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    14.43 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 580
    192.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    40.10 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 580
    1581.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    692.70 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 580
    6600
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    1560

Points (higher is better)