NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 730

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 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

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$ 298.04
$ 89.99
$ 208.05 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

14 %
599% significantly better overall score
2 %

Flux Core frame rate

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

29 FPS
24 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS
19 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

19 FPS
16 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
3 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS
15 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
2 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2286
637% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
310
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

152.84
286% significantly higher Blender score
39.50
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

17784
548% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
2743
Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

8773
353% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score
1933
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21072
471% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
3690
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

22380
549% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
3447
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

8773
436% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
1635
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17268
390% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
3517
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

22233
490% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
3768

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1127 MHz
24% slightly higher core clock speed
902 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz
1253 MHz
6% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB
100% significantly more memory
2 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit
Identical
128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.2 GB/s
289% 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

37.7 Gigapixels/s
1246% significantly higher pixel rate
2.8 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

75.39 Gigatexels/s
573% significantly higher texture rate
11.2 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024
966% significantly more shading units
96

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

64
300% significantly more texture mapping units
16

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
700% significantly more render output processors
4

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

125th of 360
253rd of 360

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

January 2015
April 2015

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 960 vs GeForce GT 730 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 960 beats the GeForce GT 730 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 960 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. Despite this, the GeForce GT 730 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 960 has significantly more memory with 4 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 960 at 120 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 960 over the GeForce GT 730.

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