GeForce GTX 660 vs GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
Summary
GeForce GTX 660
435%
GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
100%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 660 |
| Around 335% higher average synthetic performance. |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce GT 730 GDDR5 |
| 102 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 660 . |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 660
The GeForce GTX 660 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 660 | | GeForce GT 730 GDDR5 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GK106 (GK106-400-A1) | vs | GK208 () |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 221 mm² | vs | 87 mm² |
| Transistors | 2,540 million | vs | unknown |
| Shaders | 960 | vs | 384 |
| Compute Units | 5 | vs | 2 |
| Core clock | 980 MHz | vs | 902 MHz |
| ROPs | 24 | vs | 8 |
| TMUs | 80 | vs | 16 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 660 | | GeForce GT 730 GDDR5 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 192 bit | vs | 64 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective | vs | 1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 660 | | GeForce GT 730 GDDR5 | |
|---|
| TDP | 140 watts | vs | 38 watts |
| Release Date | 6 Sep 2012 | vs | 18 Jun 2014 |
GeForce GTX 660
19.60 GP/s
GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
7.22 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 660
78.40 GT/s
GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
14.43 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 660
144.00 GB/s
GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
40.10 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 660
1882.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
692.70 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
GeForce GTX 660
6800
GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
1560
Points (higher is better)