NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

Price

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$ 37.16

$ 482.83 significantly less expensive

$ 519.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

204 points

1261 points

518% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

5 FPS

28 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS

17 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

3 FPS

19 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

2 FPS

14 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

297 points

2038 points

586% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

40.01 points

194.26 points

385% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

2743 points

13627 points

396% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

1933 points

8002 points

313% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3690 points

16368 points

343% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3447 points

16340 points

374% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

2151 points

7720 points

258% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3630 points

18409 points

407% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3735 points

18023 points

382% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

902 MHz

1006 MHz

11% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1253 MHz

18% slightly higher boost clock speed

1058 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

4 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

28.8 GB/s

192.3 GB/s

567% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

49 W

297% significantly lower TDP

195 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

2.8 Gigapixels/s

33.86 Gigapixels/s

1109% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

11.2 Gigatexels/s

135.4 Gigatexels/s

1108% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1536

1500% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

700% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

700% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

427th of 586

246th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 April

2012 March

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 680 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 680 graphics card is better than the GeForce GT 730 in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 680 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce GTX 680 has significantly more memory with 4 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 680 at 195 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 680 is faster than the GeForce GT 730.