NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 vs NVIDIA GeForce 940M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 940M, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce 940M

Price

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$ 37.16

$ 14.00

$ 23.16 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

204 points

325 points

59% 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

6 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

2 FPS

5 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

297 points

506 points

70% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

40.01 points

48.42 points

21% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

2743 points

5882 points

114% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3690 points

6193 points

67% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3447 points

5469 points

58% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3630 points

6264 points

72% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3735 points

5609 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

902 MHz

1020 MHz

13% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1253 MHz

14% slightly higher boost clock speed

1098 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

100% significantly higher memory bandwidth

14.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

49 W

53% significantly lower TDP

75 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

2.8 Gigapixels/s

17.57 Gigapixels/s

527% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

11.2 Gigatexels/s

35.14 Gigatexels/s

213% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512

433% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

432nd of 586

368th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 April

2015 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 940M specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce 940M GPU is faster than the GeForce GT 730 in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce 940M has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. Despite this, the GeForce GT 730 has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce GT 730 has a significantly lower TDP at 49 W when compared to the GeForce 940M at 75 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce 940M is better than the GeForce GT 730.