NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 730

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 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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$ 879.85

$ 37.16

$ 842.69 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2494 points

1122% significantly better overall score

204 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS

47 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

38 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

36 FPS

32 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

3 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

2 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4376 points

1373% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

297 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

367.38 points

818% significantly higher Blender score

40.01 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

29848 points

988% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

2743 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

15163 points

684% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

1933 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33463 points

806% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

3690 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

41306 points

1098% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

3447 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

15163 points

604% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

2151 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

34611 points

853% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

3630 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

38178 points

922% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

3735 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1126 MHz

24% slightly higher core clock speed

902 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1216 MHz

1253 MHz

3% 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

165 W

49 W

236% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

77.82 Gigapixels/s

2679% significantly higher pixel rate

2.8 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

155.6 Gigatexels/s

1289% significantly higher texture rate

11.2 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

2033% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

700% 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

177th of 586

428th 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 980 vs GeForce GT 730 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 980 graphics card is better than the GeForce GT 730 in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 980 has a slightly 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. Despite this, the GeForce GT 730 has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 980 has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GT 730 has a significantly lower TDP at 49 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 980 at 165 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 980 is faster than the GeForce GT 730.