NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 2 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650

Price

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$ 37.16

$ 61.32 significantly less expensive

$ 98.48

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

204 points

287 points

40% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

5 FPS

7 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS

4 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

3 FPS

4 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

2 FPS

3 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

297 points

546 points

83% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

40.01 points

48.76 points

21% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

2743 points

3469 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

1933 points

2446 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3690 points

4712 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3447 points

4293 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

2151 points

2400 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3630 points

4552 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3735 points

4783 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

902 MHz

1058 MHz

17% slightly higher core clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

Identical

2 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

Identical

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

28.8 GB/s

80 GB/s

177% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

49 W

30% slightly lower TDP

64 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

2.8 Gigapixels/s

8.46 Gigapixels/s

202% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

11.2 Gigatexels/s

33.86 Gigatexels/s

202% 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

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

429th of 586

384th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce GT 730 vs GeForce GTX 650 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 650 graphics card is better than the GeForce GT 730 in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 650 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 2 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GT 730 has a slightly lower TDP at 49 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 650 at 64 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 650 is better than the GeForce GT 730.