NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 730

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 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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NVIDIA GeForce GT 730

Price

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$ 369.00

$ 37.16

$ 331.84 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2262 points

1008% significantly better overall score

204 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

42 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

32 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

28 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

3 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

2 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3647 points

1127% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

297 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points

624% significantly higher Blender score

40.01 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

25908 points

844% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

2743 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13595 points

603% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

1933 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points

690% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

3690 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107 points

889% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

3447 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13595 points

532% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

2151 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

706% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

3630 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

766% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

3735 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

16% 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

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s

679% significantly higher memory bandwidth

28.8 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

49 W

195% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s

2256% significantly higher pixel rate

2.8 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

993% significantly higher texture rate

11.2 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664

1633% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

550% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

1300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586

430th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

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 970 vs GeForce GT 730 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 970 beats the GeForce GT 730 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 970 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: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 970 has significantly more memory with 4 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 970 at 145 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 970 is faster than the GeForce GT 730.