NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 vs AMD Radeon HD 8670M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 2 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 8670M 1 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
175% significantly better overall score
74 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

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

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS
1 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
1 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

3 FPS
1 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
2 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

2 FPS
2 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
0 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3690 points
5532 points
49% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3630 points
5539 points
52% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

902 MHz
16% slightly higher core clock speed
775 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1253 MHz
61% significantly higher boost clock speed
775 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB
100% significantly more memory
1 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

427th of 586
523rd of 586

Family

The product line

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Radeon HD 8000M Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 April
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
11.1

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.4

GeForce GT 730 vs Radeon HD 8670M comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GT 730 graphics card is better than the Radeon HD 8670M in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce GT 730 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. In addition, the GeForce GT 730 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce GT 730 has significantly more memory with 2 GiB of memory compared to 1 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GT 730 is faster than the Radeon HD 8670M.

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