NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti 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

204 points

1159 points

468% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

5 FPS

27 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS

16 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

3 FPS

18 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

2 FPS

13 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

297 points

1634 points

450% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

40.01 points

150.80 points

276% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

2743 points

11298 points

311% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

1933 points

6670 points

245% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3690 points

14647 points

296% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3447 points

14555 points

322% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

2151 points

6670 points

210% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3630 points

15295 points

321% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3735 points

16140 points

332% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

902 MHz

915 MHz

1% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1253 MHz

27% slightly higher boost clock speed

980 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

206% significantly lower TDP

150 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

2.8 Gigapixels/s

27.44 Gigapixels/s

879% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

11.2 Gigatexels/s

109.8 Gigatexels/s

880% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1344

1300% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

599% 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

430th of 586

253rd 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 660 Ti specs and performance

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

The GeForce GTX 660 Ti 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 boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 660 Ti has significantly more memory with 3 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GT 730 has a significantly lower TDP at 49 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 660 Ti at 150 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 660 Ti over the GeForce GT 730.