NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 vs Intel Iris Xe

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 2 GB vs Intel Iris Xe, 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

974 points

377% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

5 FPS

24 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS

14 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

3 FPS

15 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

2 FPS

10 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Gaming Benchmarks

Fortnite FPS

Low settings at 1080p

97 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Fortnite FPS

71 FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

297 points

75% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

169 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

40.01 points

100.90 points

152% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3690 points

14184 points

284% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3447 points

14105 points

309% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3630 points

11957 points

229% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3735 points

16575 points

343% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

902 MHz

200% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1253 MHz

13% slightly higher boost clock speed

1100 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

49 W

15 W

226% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

2.8 Gigapixels/s

13.2 Gigapixels/s

371% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

11.2 Gigatexels/s

26.4 Gigatexels/s

135% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

300% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

49% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

432nd of 586

266th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 April

2020 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DDR4

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce GT 730 vs Iris Xe comparison

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

In our comparison, the GeForce GT 730 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 GT 730 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 Iris Xe has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the GeForce GT 730 at 49 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Iris Xe over the GeForce GT 730.