NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 vs NVIDIA GeForce MX330

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce MX330, 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
566 points
177% 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
13 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS
9 FPS
6 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

3 FPS
9 FPS
6 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

2 FPS
8 FPS
5 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

40.01 points
72.87 points
82% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

2743 points
9906 points
261% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3690 points
10474 points
183% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3447 points
10022 points
190% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3630 points
10544 points
190% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3735 points
9041 points
142% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

902 MHz
1531 MHz
69% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1253 MHz
1594 MHz
27% 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
56.06 GB/s
94% 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
25.5 Gigapixels/s
810% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

11.2 Gigatexels/s
38.26 Gigatexels/s
241% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

96
384
300% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

16
24
49% significantly more texture mapping units

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
317th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 April
2020 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 MX330 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce MX330 GPU is faster than the GeForce GT 730 in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce MX330 has a significantly 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. In addition, the GeForce MX330 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce MX330 has a significantly lower TDP at 10 W when compared to the GeForce GT 730 at 49 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce MX330 is better than the GeForce GT 730.

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