NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 vs NVIDIA GeForce MX230

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce MX230, 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
343 points
68% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

5 FPS
8 FPS
3 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS
5 FPS
2 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

3 FPS
6 FPS
2 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

2 FPS
4 FPS
2 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

40.01 points
5% slightly higher Blender score
37.75 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

2743 points
6914 points
152% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3690 points
7146 points
93% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3447 points
7117 points
106% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3630 points
6822 points
87% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3735 points
6359 points
70% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

902 MHz
1519 MHz
68% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1253 MHz
1531 MHz
22% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit
100% significantly larger memory bus width
64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

28.8 GB/s
48.06 GB/s
66% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

49 W
10 W
389% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

2.8 Gigapixels/s
24.5 Gigapixels/s
774% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

11.2 Gigatexels/s
24.5 Gigatexels/s
118% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

96
256
166% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

16
Identical
16

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

4
16
300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

427th of 586
362nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 April
2019 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce GT 730 vs GeForce MX230 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce MX230 beats the GeForce GT 730 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce MX230 has a significantly 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. In addition, the GeForce MX230 also 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.

In addition, the GeForce MX230 has a significantly lower TDP at 10 W when compared to the GeForce GT 730 at 49 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce MX230 is faster than the GeForce GT 730.

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