NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 730

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 229.39
$ 37.16
$ 192.23 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3653 points
1690% significantly better overall score
204 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

82 FPS
77 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

49 FPS
46 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

60 FPS
57 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
3 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS
35 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
2 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5419 points
1724% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
297 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

722.48 points
1705% significantly higher Blender score
40.01 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

60503 points
2105% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
2743 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

55712 points
1409% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
3690 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

51028 points
1380% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
3447 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

59886 points
1549% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
3630 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

56143 points
1403% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
3735 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1530 MHz
69% significantly higher core clock speed
902 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1785 MHz
42% slightly higher boost clock speed
1253 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB
200% significantly more memory
2 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit
49% significantly larger memory bus width
128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.1 GB/s
567% significantly higher memory bandwidth
28.8 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W
49 W
144% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.68 Gigapixels/s
2960% significantly higher pixel rate
2.8 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

157.1 Gigatexels/s
1302% significantly higher texture rate
11.2 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408
1366% significantly more shading units
96

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

88
450% significantly more texture mapping units
16

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
1100% significantly more render output processors
4

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

133rd of 586
432nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 March
2015 April

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

4.5
4.6

GeForce GTX 1660 vs GeForce GT 730 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1660 graphics card is better than the GeForce GT 730 in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1660 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 GTX 1660 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 1660 has significantly more memory with 6 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 1660 at 120 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1660 is better than the GeForce GT 730.

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