NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 730

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8 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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$ 320.00

$ 37.16

$ 282.84 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3644 points

1686% significantly better overall score

204 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

72 FPS

68 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

59 FPS

56 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

43 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

3 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

45 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

2 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6047 points

1936% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

297 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

558.86 points

1296% significantly higher Blender score

40.01 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

45558 points

1560% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

2743 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

18801 points

872% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

1933 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

47750 points

1194% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

3690 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53125 points

1441% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

3447 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

18801 points

774% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

2151 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50172 points

1282% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

3630 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49876 points

1235% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

3735 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

66% significantly higher core clock speed

902 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1683 MHz

34% slightly higher boost clock speed

1253 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

300% significantly more memory

2 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256.30 GB/s

789% significantly higher memory bandwidth

28.8 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

49 W

206% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

107.7 Gigapixels/s

3746% significantly higher pixel rate

2.8 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

202 Gigatexels/s

1703% significantly higher texture rate

11.2 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

1900% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

650% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

1500% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

134th of 586

430th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

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 1070 vs GeForce GT 730 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1070 beats the GeForce GT 730 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1070 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 GTX 1070 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce GTX 1070 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GT 730 has a significantly lower TDP at 49 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1070 at 150 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1070 over the GeForce GT 730.