NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 3 GB, 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

2 %

8 %

300% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

5 FPS

18 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS

11 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

3 FPS

12 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

2 FPS

9 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

310

1312

323% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

39.50

124.24

214% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

2743

8583

212% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

1933

5449

181% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3690

11381

208% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3447

10693

210% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3517

11123

216% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3768

11727

211% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

902 MHz

980 MHz

8% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1253 MHz

21% slightly higher boost clock speed

1032 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

3 GiB

49% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

28.8 GB/s

144.2 GB/s

400% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

49 W

185% significantly lower TDP

140 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

2.8 Gigapixels/s

20.64 Gigapixels/s

637% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

11.2 Gigatexels/s

82.56 Gigatexels/s

637% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

960

900% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

400% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

499% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

252nd of 363

154th of 363

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

April 2015

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 660 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 660 GPU is faster than the GeForce GT 730 in gaming.

The GeForce GTX 660 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: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 660 has significantly more memory with 3 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GT 730 has a significantly lower TDP at 49 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 660 at 140 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 660 is better than the GeForce GT 730.