GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon HD 7730
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 950 |
| 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) |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7730 |
| 43 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 950 . |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports Mantle |
| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 950
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 950 | | Radeon HD 7730 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GM206 (GM206-250-A1) | vs | Cape Verde (Cape Verde LE) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 228 mm² | vs | 123 mm² |
| Transistors | 2,940 million | vs | 1,500 million |
| Shaders | 768 | vs | 384 |
| Compute Units | 6 | vs | 6 |
| Core clock | 1024 MHz | vs | 800 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 8 |
| TMUs | 48 | vs | 24 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 950 | | Radeon HD 7730 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1653 MHz
6612 MHz effective | vs | 1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 950 | | Radeon HD 7730 | |
|---|
| TDP | 90 watts | vs | 47 watts |
| Release Date | 20 Aug 2015 | vs | 1 May 2013 |
GeForce GTX 950
32.80 GP/s
Radeon HD 7730
6.40 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 950
49.20 GT/s
Radeon HD 7730
19.20 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 950
105.80 GB/s
Radeon HD 7730
72.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 950
1572.90 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 7730
614.40 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better