NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 730

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 2 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 730

Price

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$ 335.00

$ 37.16

$ 297.84 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2077 points

918% significantly better overall score

204 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS

39 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

3 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

2 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3636 points

1124% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

297 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

370.89 points

827% significantly higher Blender score

40.01 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

31129 points

1034% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

2743 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13531 points

599% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

1933 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32388 points

777% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

3690 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

31476 points

813% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

3447 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13531 points

529% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

2151 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points

791% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

3630 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points

727% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

3735 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz

89% significantly higher core clock speed

902 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

200% significantly more memory

2 GiB

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

49 W

144% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

205th of 586

431st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 April

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

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce GT 730 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1060 graphics card is better than the GeForce GT 730 in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1060 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 1060 has significantly more memory with 6 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 1060 at 120 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1060 is better than the GeForce GT 730.