NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 vs NVIDIA GeForce 840M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 840M, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

204 points

315 points

54% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

5 FPS

8 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS

6 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

3 FPS

5 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

2 FPS

5 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

297 points

503 points

69% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

40.01 points

45.23 points

13% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

2743 points

5629 points

105% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3690 points

5938 points

60% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3447 points

5207 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3630 points

6089 points

67% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3735 points

5261 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

902 MHz

1029 MHz

14% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1253 MHz

11% slightly higher boost clock speed

1124 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

28.8 GB/s

79% significantly higher memory bandwidth

16.02 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

49 W

33 W

48% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

2.8 Gigapixels/s

8.99 Gigapixels/s

221% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

11.2 Gigatexels/s

17.98 Gigatexels/s

60% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

300% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

Identical

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

432nd of 586

371st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 April

2014 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce GT 730 vs GeForce 840M benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce 840M beats the GeForce GT 730 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce 840M has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. Despite this, the GeForce GT 730 has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce 840M has a significantly lower TDP at 33 W when compared to the GeForce GT 730 at 49 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce 840M is faster than the GeForce GT 730.