NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 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

1446 points

608% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

5 FPS

30 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS

22 FPS

19 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

18 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

297 points

2280 points

667% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

40.01 points

206.38 points

415% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

2743 points

18285 points

566% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3690 points

20012 points

442% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3447 points

21753 points

531% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3630 points

19440 points

435% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3735 points

19602 points

424% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

902 MHz

924 MHz

2% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1253 MHz

20% slightly higher boost clock speed

1038 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

120.3 GB/s

317% significantly higher memory bandwidth

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

49.82 Gigapixels/s

1679% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

11.2 Gigatexels/s

83.04 Gigatexels/s

641% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

1233% 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

1100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

430th of 586

238th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 April

2014 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce GT 730 vs GeForce GTX 970M specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 970M beats the GeForce GT 730 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 970M 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. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce GTX 970M 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 970M at 75 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 970M is faster than the GeForce GT 730.