HD Graphics 4000 (Ivy Bridge GT2) vs GeForce GT 730 GDDR5

HD Graphics 4000 (Ivy Bridge GT2)
Memory: 0Mb System SharedDESKTOP
Release date: 14 May 2012
HD Graphics 4000 (Ivy Bridge GT2)
GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2014
GeForce GT 730 GDDR5

Summary

Reasons to consider HD Graphics 4000 (Ivy Bridge GT2)

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 730 GDDR5

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GT 730 GDDR5

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 730 GDDR5

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

HD Graphics 4000 (Ivy Bridge GT2)GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
GPU NameIvy Bridge GT2 ()vsGK208 ()
Fab Process22 nmvs28 nm
Die Size160 mm²vs87 mm²
Transistors392 millionvsunknown
Shaders16vs384
Compute Units0vs2
Core clock650 MHzvs902 MHz
ROPs4vs8
TMUs4vs16

Memory Configuration

HD Graphics 4000 (Ivy Bridge GT2)GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
Memory TypeSystem SharedvsGDDR5
Bus WidthSystem Sharedvs64 bit
Memory SpeedSystem Sharedvs1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
Memory Size0 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

HD Graphics 4000 (Ivy Bridge GT2)GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
TDP0 wattsvs38 watts
Release Date14 May 2012vs18 Jun 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • HD Graphics 4000 (Ivy Bridge GT2)
    2.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    7.22 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • HD Graphics 4000 (Ivy Bridge GT2)
    2.60 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    14.43 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • HD Graphics 4000 (Ivy Bridge GT2)
    0.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    40.10 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • HD Graphics 4000 (Ivy Bridge GT2)
    20.80 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    692.70 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better