GeForce GTX 950 LP vs GeForce GT 730 GDDR5

GeForce GTX 950 LP
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 14 May 2016
GeForce GTX 950 LP
GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2014
GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
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Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 950 LP
    544%
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 950 LP

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 444% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 730 GDDR5

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 950 LP

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 950 LP

The GeForce GTX 950 LP is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 950 LPGeForce GT 730 GDDR5
GPU NameGM206 (GM206-251-A1)vsGK208 ()
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size228 mm²vs87 mm²
Transistors2,940 millionvsunknown
Shaders768vs384
Compute Units6vs2
Core clock1024 MHzvs902 MHz
ROPs32vs8
TMUs48vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 950 LPGeForce GT 730 GDDR5
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1653 MHz
6612 MHz effective
vs1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 950 LPGeForce GT 730 GDDR5
TDP75 wattsvs38 watts
Release Date14 May 2016vs18 Jun 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 950 LP
    32.80 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    7.22 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 950 LP
    49.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    14.43 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 950 LP
    105.80 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    40.10 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 950 LP
    1572.90 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    692.70 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 950 LP
    8490
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    1560

Points (higher is better)